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So I talked at Grails Exchange 2007 about how we used Grails 0.4 through 0.5.6 to deploy five commercial branded websites in 2007.
Skills Matter asked for all the slides up front, like most conferences do, but I "refused" because if you are doing a presentation that is not death by powerpoint, printed/pre-available material ruins the […]

I only just caught up with Rick Hightower’s great post on why Sun should ditch JRuby and support Groovy.
For all of us in the Groovy camp it’s a no-brainer. We love the dynamic nature and productivity of Groovy, we’re still a stone’s throw from our good friend Java, and we’ve got the hottest new web […]

Glen Smith has an amazing talent for spotting impressive things you can do with Grails in just a few lines of code. Like "The Joker" in the first Batman movie, I can’t help but think "Damn, where does he get those toys?"
In his latest post chronicling his development of a Grails based Blog application, he […]

Oh well it’s all just fun and games but I have some hopes/feelings about what might come out of Steve Jobs Apple keynote at Macworld 2008.
My predictions are:

iTunes video rentals, as reported in the press. I hope the 24 hour limit does not apply though, it seems very lame
To back this up, I think there […]

The Open Eye campaign group has opened a UK government petition that UK residents can sign up to online to urge the government to stop forcing children under 5 years old to learn reading and writing - instead of learning through natural play as is widely recognized to be more effective.
Please take a look and […]