I’ve been having a ball playing with Gaelyk for developing Google App Engine applications in Groovy. One thing that Gaelyk lacks (for now! It’s only 0.3.x) is any kind of layout engine like Sitemesh. No probs, just add then the Sitemesh filter to your web.xml and you’re off, right? <filter> <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name> <filter-class>com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> Well that would be wonderful! However Sitemesh 2.4.1 has some integration points with JNDI that will bring you [...]

I’ve got a new little hobby grails project that relies on a user’s tweets to power its data collection, so I’ve been exploring using Twitter’s oauth features to do away user accounts altogether. My little project is called “Twitter Until You’re Fitter” and the idea is that I can tweet my weight “@tuyf 93kg” each week, and the app will pick up the value and graph it over time toward my goal weight (85kg). Given [...]

I spent last Thursday with a bunch of the Queensland Groovy and Grails folk, hanging out at the Open Source Developers Conference. The day started with a super Groovy/Grails in the Enterprise talk from Bob Brown. After that was a great chance to meet Paul King from “Groovy in Action” fame: I sat down and interviewed Paul about Groovy, Agile, GPars and Chickens, which will appear as part of episode 101 of the Grails podcast. [...]