JVM Web Framework Survey, First Results
Yesterday at Devoxx, Matt Raible did a very interesting talk on comparing JVM web frameworks. On this occasion he had the incredible courage of voicing his opinion on each of the most well-known...
View ArticleFlex on Grails, Take 2: Part 3
At the end of the second article in this series, we ended up with a working application but it was not really ready for the real world because it had one major flaw: the URL of the AMF endpoint was...
View ArticleMy Case for DTO’s
In many of my posts about Grails and Flex integration, I take for granted that I use Data Transfer Objects to transfer data between my Grails backend and my Flex frontend. Put simply, Data Transfer...
View ArticleGrails, Vaadin and Spring Security Core
I got kind of bored with Flex and all the complexity it introduces by forcing you to switch between ActionScript and whatever you are using for the backend (Groovy in my case). I also got bored with...
View ArticleWhy I switched back from Heroku to CloudBees
I used to have several grails applications deployed on CloudBees. I liked the fact that they were Java all along, I liked the smooth integration between Jenkins CI and the deployment environment. I...
View ArticleTop 5 reasons why you should consider Groovy and Grails for your enterprise...
I’m so amazed when I see how so few companies are using Groovy and Grails right now, and are still using old stuff like Spring and Hibernate, that I thought I would jump in and do my share of...
View ArticlePayment Processing Landscape in Europe
It is a well-known yet long-standing fact that setting up payment processing is much harder in Europe than it is in the United States for example. A major reason for that complexity comes from the fact...
View ArticleAndroid Studio and the future of Java IDE’s
Yesterday, when they announced Android Studio during the keynote of Google I/O, my very first reaction was “Oh no! Too bad for Jetbrains! Even though they build awesome plugins for Android development,...
View ArticleCouchbase and the API model
On my last job, working mostly on our iOS app as a frontend developer, something struck me hard. So much effort went into building plumbing code, things like offline caching, pagination, connection...
View ArticleI Need an App
As a startup coach and as a freelance app developer, that’s a sentence I hear a lot. Entrepreneurs with a business idea, but not necessarily the tech know-how to make it a reality, want to know what...
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