Glen

Apologies for tonight’s groovyblogs outage…

Yes.. Well.. Tonight the server that hosts groovyblogs literally “let the smoke out”. I guess three years of 24×7 operations was too much for no-name whitebox hardware… but it was a stellar effort (I think it was around 250 days of uptime when I last checked). Anyways… I’ve restored the postgres backup from the night before to some lower end hardware I had lying...

Glen

Generating Browser Thumbnails… at Grails Exchange!

Everything is coming together for Grails Exchange next month in London… it’s a long way for this Aussie to travel, and I’ve never been to the homeland, but I’m super excited about hanging out with all of you over there. I’m presenting a session title The Whole Nine Yards which will cover 10 things you can do in 10 minutes that your users will just love. I’ll be taking...

Glen

Goodnight SyncTheMilk: Just not fast enough to market….

This blog has been pretty quiet lately since I’ve been beavering hard on SyncTheMilk, my little Groovy app for syncing Outlook to Remember The Milk. Sadly, though, SyncTheMilk will never make to 1.0, since the guys at RTM have released their own client called MilkSync which uses their own private SyncML interface. So it’s definitely time to call it a day. I came pretty close: Anyways,...