I’ve just installed a brand new OCZ Agility 3 Solid State Drive (SSD) into my ASUS UL80JT ASUS Laptop. The BIOS saw the drive immediately, so I figured I was in the clear. Sadly Windows 7 said it couldn’t find any devices to install on! Yikes! I discovered in this thread that other people have faced this problem too, and they had worked out some fixes. And (for me at least), there was a very easy [...]

I’ve been totally loving the Grails 1.4M1 experience. In particular, the unit testing support has been a God-send. The one pain point for me has been class reloading has been broken on Windows 7 (I know, I know, spare your jests). Anyways, Burt has posted an updated startGrails.bat that gets controller loading happening again! Awesome! If you’re backporting to M1, you’ll need to change the references in the posted script from “BUILD-SNAPSHOT” to “M1″, or [...]

I’ve been using WordPress for some client integration jobs recently and have really fallen in love with the easy of use and extensive plugins that WordPress brings to the content management space. So I’ve taken the bold move of moving all my data out of Gravl, my long-dead Grails based blogging system, and onto WordPress. The only problem was getting the data out! First though: write a little user script and get Grails to run [...]

I’ve recently migrated one of my applications over to Grails 1.4M1 (mainly because I was busting to try out the new testing stuff that Peter was writing about). In the process, I had a chance to kick the tyres on the new resources infrastructure that Marc has baked into 1.4. So what’s the verdict? The new Resources framework is jam-packed-full-of-awesome! This stuff has significantly reduced the amount of js/css dependency nightmares that I have been [...]