Archive for February, 2009
Overnight Website Challenge + Grails
by Colin on Feb.27, 2009, under General
Sierra Bravo is putting on an overnight website challenge tomorrow featuring 12 teams and 12 non-profits. The challenge is a great way to give back and strut our stuff.
I’m on a team called the Groovy Goolies and we plan to use Grails to deliver a powerful web-app. Our team has an excellent lineup with a broad range of experience and talent. I’m sure we’ll do great – we’ll definitely get to beat my friends on the Inetium Team. The rich set of Grails plugins, excellent testing support and the power of Groovy will go a long way.
Checkout another post from another team-member or follow us on twitter.
Groovy and Grails IDE Shootout
by Colin on Feb.11, 2009, under Groovy-Grails
Last night at the Groovy Users of Minnesota (GUM) meeting we did an IDE shootout where we covered Groovy and Grails support in the more popular IDEs.
Jesse O’neill-Oine from Refactr started us off with TextMate.
I (Colin Harrington) presented on Eclipse and Netbeans:
Hamlet D’arcy teamed up with Matt Abrams & Bob Schultz to close out the night with Jetbrains‘ IntelliJ-IDEA.
Ironically IntelliJ-IDEA 8.1 was released the very next day. Hamlet has some good tips on his blog about Intellij-IDEA.
This is an ever improving topic and changes very rapidly, so If we missed anything just drop us a comment 
Special thanks to Guillaume Laforge, Petr Hejl, Sven Haiges of the Grails Podcast as well as everyone who has contributed to the community via blogposts, documentation updates, etc.
Enjoy.
