Marc Palmer

I finally polished up and released the first version of my Grails documentation widget. I normally don’t dig widgets much but it’s really useful to be able to rapidly jump to the ref docs for a taglib etc without having to go to grails.org
Get it here
 

I tried to sync my 1st Gen iPhone in the dock today. There was some error about it not being able to mount the iphone as a disk, which I OK’d and re-docked it so it synced again.
Now I find that all of my paid applications - Super Monkey Ball, Band, Enigmo, OmniFocus and Drum [...]

Many of you will know that I’ve been working solidly on Grails sites for the last 2 years now, for high profile UK food/drink brands. Due to a gap in brand budgets, I am available for contract work from mid-August for what looks like a few months.
With these brand sites I have been heading the [...]

Well summer has definitely arrived at long last, albeit interspersed with dull patches.
The garden is going nuts, and our veg patches are doing quite well - into our second year of rotation and the hard work putting in literally tons of compost is paying off. The potatoes are good this year, yields lower than last [...]

It looks like the Co-operative Bank have upgraded their total disaster of a rework of their previously perfectly reliable business online banking service.
I can tell this because the UI has changed slightly, and more importantly pretty much any time I try to request a page i.e. do anything with the site I get this glorious [...]