Mind the Gap! I’m in London! 33 hours in a plane is worth it to be at Grails Exchange this week. It’s gonna be awesome. I’m not sure of what the WiFi story is at the Barbican Centre, so I’m screencasting a few bits and pieces of the presento. I did a little homework on Screencasting stuff for OSX, and ended up settling with iShowU which seem to have awesome bang for buck. You can [...]

I thought I would put together a quick demo app that demonstrated all of the things I’m going to be talking about at Grails Exchange so people have a nice “take-away” to play with at home. Well… it’s a week to go and I’m half done… but a lot can happen on a long flight! For a teaser… here’s the home page… based on a little DZone inspiration.. And it wouldn’t be Web2.0 without CSS [...]

I think I’m only five years behind the rest of the world, but I’ve recently had need to tinker with Commons BeanUtils and Commons Lang and have found some very nice stuff in there… I’ve always wanted an easy and generic way to dump out the properties of an object in toString() but never had the passion to follow through… Groovy gives you the super-quick obj.dump() to see all the properties of an object… and [...]

Phew! I’m finally done on my slides for my Grails Exchange presento. It’s gonna be a blast. I’m packing a ton of stuff into 60 minutes. There’ll be stuff in there around JFreeChart, Rome, ehcache, wiki markup with Textile, scriptaculous, and Yahoo UI. Hopefully something for everyone! Can’t wait! If you’re coming, make sure you drop by and say hello! It’s a 25 hour flight.. so I’ll be the tired-looking guy with the Aussie accent. [...]