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I’ve finally managed to release the Grails Feeds Plugin I mentioned in my Grails Exchange 2007 talk.
What this plugin does is make it trivial for you to generate syndication feeds (RSS or Atom or any ROME supported format) from within your grails apps.
It supplies a FeedBuilder which uses a simple but flexible DSL for generating […]

Today has been very difficult. We said goodbye to Tricia Anderson at her funeral at a lovely woodland burial ground. It was an incredibly moving occasion for all those present, I doubt that I will ever be at the funeral of a more loved and globally-respected person.
Tricia was an independent midwife of international renown, and […]

I just got back to the countryside after a rather enjoyable day at Grails Exchange 2007. I’ve never been to a developers conference before, unless you count the old ATARI ST demo coding party or two of my youth. The Barbican was a good venue… but man that is one horrible mofo of a lump […]

Graeme Rocher today announced G2One Inc. has been formed with VC capital and will be actively developing the open source Groovy and Grails code bases.
This is fantastic news - it will really strengthen Groovy and Grails’ position in the market place. In the medium term it should mean faster turnaround on developments and improved documentation, […]

It’s a pet peeve of mine as some readers will know. The Co-op bank’s "Acumen" online banking system is a hideous retrograde step in usability compared to their old system. More features, less usability. Genius.
One of the most irritating things about it is that the session times out very quickly, and when it does so, […]