In March 2008 I started experimenting with flex and java integration. I wrote a lot of blog posts since than and even published an article on adobe.com. For most of my blog items I used a sample that is available
Creating a w3c validated rss feed using Rome and spring 3
For my current customer I had to create an rss feed. In the java domain you immediately grab Rome to do the job. There was a catch. My customer wants (with good reason) to have feeds validated by the w3c
New blog post about syslogging from a java app using log4j
I wrote a new blog post on my employers website about java and syslogging. In this blog post I describe how you can use the linux syslog service from a java application. I use Log4j to do the actual logging
Still doing grails
This is the third post in a series of post about grails. In this series I am describing an application I am creating with grails. It is a scheduling application for scheduling people on projects. You can find the previous
Continuing with grails
In my previous post Starting with grails, I wrote a long story about creating a new application with grails. I introduced some plugins and gave some hints and tips about working with grails from a starter perspective. As I move
CQRS made easy with cqrs4j
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural style that makes a clear distinction between commands, which tell an application to do something, and queries, which are requests for information from an application. This distinction comes from the fact
Starting with grails
In this blog post I am writing down the steps I took to create a new grails application. Maybe it can be of help to other that want to start using grails. In short I am going to create an
Analyzing beet results with groovy
The recent weeks I have been playing around with grails. When working with grails you have to learn groovy as well. Sometimes I am just amazed by the easiness of doing things with groovy. That is why I started out