In the leadup to JavaOne, I whipped up a little competition app in Grails using the new Redis support. Graeme has written up a great GORM for Redis intro post that gives you all the info you need to get underway, so I’ll just add my experience to those interested. Here’s my little JavaOne competition app in action: If you haven’t played with Redis before, think of it as a supercharged memcached. Except, of course, [...]

I’m speaking at the ACT Oracle User Group conference next week on Java EE6. Normally I’d do a talk on Grails to this set (and pump the book of course!), but Peter McNeil had already put a Grails talk together and I was already brimming with other ideas… Anyways, I’ve been doing some client work on JEE6 lately, and I was so inspired by Adam Bien’s live coding talk at JavaOne 2010, I’m going to [...]