http://www.rimple.com/tech Blog about technologies I've used and come into contact with Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:12:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just announced Grails 1.1 Beta 2. This release includes maven integration, including building your grails app from maven, or using an archetype to create Grails projects. http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/24/grails-11-beta-2-released/ Background: In the 90's I used to work for a company named Information Technologists (ITI). In those days, the Internet wasn't even web-based (think BitNet, and think UseNet newsgroups, and that funky WAIS browser I could never understand--don't even get me started on Gopher). That company did consulting, ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/13/what-a-week-of-delivering-training-taught-me/ InfoQ: Jigsaw - the death knell of JSR277? Read this InfoQ article (found by my Chariot co-hort Dmitry Skylut of It Depends!). Here is an interesting development... Looks like Sun is putting JSR-277, the Dynamic Modules project, to bed, in order to focus on an Open JDK project Jigsaw. ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/03/a-new-project-from-sun-casts-doubt-on-the-future-of-jsr277/ Here are a few blog sites covering the SpringOne conference: Grey Bearded Geek - Chariot's Rich Freedman has been writing about the keynotes, sesssions on his blog It Depends (tm) - Chariot's Dmitry Sklyut writes about the Tomcat server and other topics here. New York Java Consultant - Solomon Duskis writes about SpringOne ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/03/bloggers-at-springone/ I've been thinking about the recent acquisition of G2One by SpringSource, and I've come to the conclusion that it was a very bold and smart move by both parties. Why? Simply because it provides benefits to both parties and gives those who need rapid web development another alternative ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/03/grails-acquired-by-springsource-a-good-thing/ I am pleased to announce the 20th episode of Chariot's TechCast. We're covering the SpringOne show from Florida from a variety of angles. Visit Episode 20 on our blog page for more details and the link to download the show. As usual, you can subscribe via the ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/02/chariot-techcast-episode-20-released-springone-news/ Amazon just announced a free pricing tier for it's SimpleDB web service.  Read the details at the Amazon SimpleDB website.  Apparently you get 25 free computing hours of time in the first tier while the beta is being promoted.  http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/02/amazon-announces-free-simpledb-pricing-trial/ Coming in March, 2009 Chariot Solutions will be holding our annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise show. Held in Conshohocken, PA (just outside Philadelphia) at the Marriott, the show features over 50 speakers from all aspects of the Information Technology community. Some of our topic areas include: Ruby, Rails, ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/12/02/registration-now-open-philly-emerging-tech-2009/ From PC World and other sources... SpringSource just purchased G2One, the company backing Groovy and Grails. I think this is a great, if somewhat expected, move, for several reasons: First, G2One is giving SpringSource the agile development platform it needs to stay competitive with other Java-based rapid application platforms, ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/11/11/springsource-acquires-g2one/ I've just released the Chariot Solutions Fall Forecast, Computing Among the Clouds Panel Discussion on the Tech Cast. Join me, Chris Cera, Chris Richardson, Kortina and Toby DiPasquale as we discuss Amazon, Google, and Cloud Computing in general. Take a listen; the blog page is http://chariottechcast.libsyn.org/. The panel discussion ... http://www.rimple.com/tech/2008/10/23/fall-forecast-panel-discussion-podcast-available/