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So this Monday we had to launch a new website with Grails 1.0.2 to a site with an existing Gails 0.5.6 application running inside a single Tomcat instance.
We had the box’s ram upgraded from 1GB to 2GB to cover the anticipated extra drain - the existing app had seemingly needed 1GB for itself.
So the RAM […]

It is not surprising that Sun is making such a fuss about trying to get Java onto the iPhone / iPod Touch platform. They must be thinking "Holy crap, if iPhone and iPod touch replicate the success of iPod’s 72% mp3 player market share (excludes mp3 player phones), Java will be dead in the water […]

At long long last I’ve released my authentication plugin for Grails.
Check out the documentation here
My mission is to make authentication and authorisation as simple as possible. I just don’t get on with the complexity of Acegi etc, and they just don’t feel very Grailsy. So I chose a simple event model. You override the events […]

OK so it’s wet outside and I’m in my nice new shed… which reminded me of this great piece of Cardiacs rehearsal footage, which I have not embedded in my blog yet so thought I’d give it a try. This is such an old Cardiacs track but a great favourite… with such an excellent thrash […]

Following from the update of the ModelTagLib (which I mustn’t forget was derived from an original ModelTagLib somebody posted on grails.org a long time ago) I posted on grails.org, there will be some new developments.
I’m going to refactor the taglib bearing in mind some comments from Graeme and some cleaning up I’ve wanted to do, […]