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 [...]
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 [...]
Ruby on Rails hype: the party is over
Sep 24, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
Spain vs USA comparing two Job Boards
Sep 19, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet A few days ago I made a search in Infojobs.es (the most popular Job Board in Spain) for open positions for Ruby On Rails developers. The result was… one! I was very surprised. Only one? With all the hype around RoR? Only one job offer?It’s obvious that USA is more developed regarding technology than [...]
What is slow? JRuby or Mingle?
Aug 27, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet I have been testing Mingle, the new tool from Thoughtworks to manage Agile developments. The application really looks promising, and have a lot of new features that I’m discovering, but it’s taking me more time than I expected because it’s slow, very slow. The guys from Thoughtworks claim they have built the first JRuby [...]
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