The Grails Diaries #4: Grails, is it really worth it?
Feb 6, 2008 Uncategorized
Previous: How Grails will change my project plan The results I wanted to post my impressions and thoughts about Grails before, but you don’t know how the events in your life can twist your plans: a delay in the delivery of the HTML designer, a flu followed by a nephritic colic, a laptop dying with [...]
Leaving AMPLIA and starting as a Freelance IT Consultant
Oct 29, 2007 Uncategorized
Last years have been a wonderful time in Amplía Soluciones S.L., but nothing is forever and I think it’s time for a change. I will continue as a partner of the company but I will look for new challenges and adventures out there. You can read my public linkedin profile if you want to know [...]
Tags: architecture, business, designs, enterprise, java, jee, jobs, management
The Grails Diaries #3: How Grails will change my project plan
Oct 9, 2007 Uncategorized
Previous: Setting up the development environment The strategy One of the most important reasons why I have chosen Grails and not JRuby/Ruby on Rails is that I’m lazy and I do not want to throw away all my Java knowledge. But now I’m wondering if Grails will change too much the way I plan my [...]
The Grails Diaries #2: Setting up the development environment
Oct 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Previous: JRuby on Rails or Grails? Once I have explained why I will use Grails I will go deeper in the development environment. Methodology: Scrum One of the things I would like to test is how Grails works with Agile development methodologies. I’m not a ScrumMaster but I like Scrum and I would like to [...]
The Grails Diaries: JRuby on Rails or Grails?
Oct 1, 2007 Uncategorized
I must admit it: I’m weak. During last two years I have been trying to avoid the dark attraction of Ruby on Rails. And it was hard. I have been searching for almost seven years something that alleviates my feeling of waste of time when developing a Web user interface. And I have been promiscuous, [...]
Ruby on Rails hype: the party is over
Sep 24, 2007 Uncategorized
Finally it seems that Ruby on Rails is starting to show its real face. Two years of RoR development put into the trash. Wow! Being seven times more productive than Java that means fourteen years of development! Seriously, it’s not common to hear of failures of a new and cool software stuff -you can look [...]
Data normalization is not for sissies, it’s just common sense
Sep 5, 2007 Uncategorized
And I must be the biggest sissy of all. There is a lot of buzz about designing your databases thinking in data normalized or denormalized. Now that everybody is building the next Google or YouTube the database design has to support trillions of transactions per second and millions of terabytes, of course running on a [...]
Tags: architecture, databases, designs
Bad times for J2ME. How the iPhone with Web 2.0 apps can rule in the mobile world
Aug 22, 2007 Uncategorized
The day Steve Jobs said ‘Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain’ . Being a Java Zealot as I am, I should find easily a fist full of arguments, but may be he is right. I have been working in the embedded and mobile world for [...]
Tags: architecture, designs, embedded, enterprise, iphone, java, mobile
The 95 percent syndrome in Software Development
Aug 13, 2007 Uncategorized
Being a Project Manager, Architect, Analyst, Developer or anybody involved in the development of software, you have probably suffered the 95 percent syndrome.Imagine a software development project where things are going reasonably well: things are on schedule, Quality Assurance says things delivered are OK, the customer feel the progress, people are happy because they don’t [...]
Tags: architecture, designs, enterprise, java, management
Going live with JEE 5: Congrats SOUKI
Apr 11, 2007 Uncategorized
Building a project for an start-up has nothing to do with building a project for a big company: people in the start-ups normally are betting their pocket money in the project, and this means that delays, unexpected issues and bad performance of the development team have direct impact in the life of the entrepreneurs. This [...]
Tags: architecture, designs, dwr, enterprise, java, jee, souki
