Nov
30
2008
Today, I came across what I call a deep-sea pearl. I came to know Hessian, the binary web service protocol.
Some time ago I blogged about the same idea Predictable Binary Representation (PBR)
, naively thinking that no one has done this before.
With the help of few friends, and some googling there turned out to be a zillion solutions that attempt to address that very problem; the etch has been really scratched by many, and the need for a compact, and predictable binary protocol is a must, no matter how fast the internet is or will become.
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Jul
16
2008
SQLite is a very interesting database engine. Its performance, simplicity and that fact it runs as a library (not a server) make it the perfect candidate for small project with few users.
Today I experimented with accessing SQLite database from within groovy.
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Jul
12
2008
Could writing threads be easier than this? I wonder. 
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Jul
12
2008
Lots of fun with Groovy introspection. Java already provides something similar but in Groovy it has completely different taste and use.
I actually use introspection often from within groovysh to investigate on what a class provides, just like auto-complete in modern IDE’s
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Jul
07
2008
GORM is cool, but groovy Sql is for the simpler cases were you just need to interact with the database.
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Jul
07
2008
Dynamic text templates are joy to do in groovy.
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Jun
14
2008
Need a cool development setup for Groovy and Grails on Linux?
No I don’t mean Eclipse nor IntelliJ, and Yes, I’m smart enough for that I’m dumping the autocompletion and autoerror detection; at least I know i’m smarter than the current plugins for those two.
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Jun
14
2008
Groovlets, could be the coolest thing since sliced-bread … except for the fact that it does n’t seem to support fileupload! what? why? is there a solution?
Yes!
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Jun
14
2008
Groovelts and Groovy Server Pages are unbelievably simple to set-up and use, quick and dirty web-api’s and proof of concept can be implemented in no time!
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