Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:29:03 +0000
Does Grails have a problem? ... //

Recently (or rather over the course of the last half year or so), there has been quite some discussion about how the Grails community responds to open source contributions, mainly with regard to Grails plugins. The main issue Robert Fischer takes offence at is that the Grails community seems less appreciative of contributions, especially with regards [...]

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:33:59 +0000
Das Internet: Ein rechtsfreier Raum ... //

Wenn Politiker über das Internet reden – wie zuletzt Bundeskanzlerin Merkel in ihrer wöchentlichen Videobotschaft aus Anlass der CeBIT – fällt schnell das Wort vom ‘rechtsfreiem Raum’. Dazu eine Rückblende: Bis Mitte der 90er Jahre und ein bisschen darüber hinaus hatten Politiker und allgemein ein Großteil der Gesellschaft noch nichts vom Internet gehört oder taten es [...]

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:00:38 +0000
MagicNumbers: Dynamic Time and Byte Calculations for Grails – Using the Meta Object Protocol to add behaviour to Grails at runtime ... //

The March issue of GroovyMag, an online-only magazine for everything Groovy and Grails has been published today. I’ve contributed an article about the Grails MagicNumbers plugin you might find interesting. Here’s a teaser: Grails plugin development and Groovy’s Meta Object Protocol are powerful tools for adding runtime modifications to standard Java classes. Introducing the new Grails [...]

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