August 17th, 2008
For any standard Grails app, the error log is called stacktrace.log by default. On some servers, it ends up in the config folder (rather than the logs folder) by default, so it’s hard to find. Also, with a fixed name, all apps running on the same server would share the same log. So, for any new Grails app, be sure to open Config.groovy and change Continue Reading »
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August 17th, 2008
First choice: JetBrains IDEA 7.0 (with 8.0 coming shortly). Possibly a good second choice: NetBeans 6.5 (new). Last resort remains: Eclipse.
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August 16th, 2008
We’ve started contributing back to the Grails open source project. First up: furthering the cause towards an initial release of a jQuery plugin (http://www.grails.org/jQuery+Plugin). Also, the next release of the Jasper Reports plugin (http://www.grails.org/Jasper+Plugin) should make life easier.
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March 19th, 2008
I am currently leading the charge for our clients with Java-based web applications to adopt Grails (i.e. Groovy on Rails). Grails (www.grails.org) has recently achieved its official 1.0 release, just behind the 1.5 release of Groovy. We’re seeing a 10-fold increase in productivity by using GSP (Groovy Server Pages) over JSP (Java Server Pages), and that factor is only going to improve with practice, and as Grails moves beyond 1.0.
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August 5th, 2007
The Maxim Software staff runs codejacked.com, a blog with productivity tips for Windows and Linux users. The tips are mostly in “power user” territory, but sometimes we can’t help but cover topics of more interest to programmers. So, for those of you who are programmers, be sure to keep an eye on the CodeJacked programming category (www.codejacked.com/category/programming/), or even easier, just sign up for the whole CodeJacked RSS feed.
Here are just a few of the recent articles in the programming category, to give you and idea of what you’ll find there:
Version Control - A Developer’s Best Friend,
RegEx Pattern Matching on Dates,
Automatic Daily MySQL Backups,
Review: SQuirreL, an Agnostic SQL Client, and
Quick Tip: Searching for Program Source Code.
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