Electric Senator - Grails category

PostgreSQL and Grails

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:58:00 GMT

I've been using grails for web applications for a while and my preferred database for these applications is PostgreSQL. Unfortunately recently I've run into a number of bugs when using Apache Shiro for security.

Tomcat and JNDI

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:27:00 GMT

JNDI allows your application to look up resources provided to it by the server on which it is running. This article will show you how to provide databases and a mail server to your web applications under Tomcat.

Installing A Continuous Integration Server

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:08:50 GMT

A friend of mine convinced me that I should at least give continuous integration servers a try to see if they might streamline my development process. I thought that a CI server might be a wonderful way to aid in communication with my clients. They would be able to see that status of work as it is being developed. Knowing that the customer is able to see not only the final version of the code, but every intermediate version and it status in testing can only improve the quality of the released product.

Google App Engine for Java Developers

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:20:25 GMT

Google's App Engine is based on a great idea, cloud computing but without having to provision individual servers to host your application. Most people deploying to the cloud don't really care about how many servers are handling their app at any given time, they just want it available whenever a customer needs it. They also don't really want to spend their time optimizing database performance, or caching performance, or any of the details that are best left up to experts like those at Google.