The grails diaries #5: Do you need a software architect?
Feb 20, 2008 Uncategorized
Tweet Previous: Grails, is it really worth it? I think there is a general misunderstanding of what kind of value can give Grails to a development shop. It seems that there are people out there that believe Grails, RoR and other breeds mean the end of Software Architectures in the web layer. The reasoning is: [...]
Tags: agile, architecture, development, grails, rails
The Grails Diaries #4: Grails, is it really worth it?
Feb 6, 2008 Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
G2One.com: following the path of Interface21 and 37Signals for Grails
Oct 11, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet Today I have discovered the existence of G2One.com. This is the company created by the people behind Grails. Following the business model ‘It is all about the Services, stupid!’ they have jumped into the bandwagon of companies that: create a framework work hard to make it first class create or find a necessity in [...]
The Grails Diaries #3: How Grails will change my project plan
Oct 9, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
The Grails Diaries #2: Setting up the development environment
Oct 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
The Grails Diaries: JRuby on Rails or Grails?
Oct 1, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
