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The “no-sql” movement has been gaining strength over recent years. There is no denying that relational databases have their role and are highly effective in many cases. However, there are times when the scalability and availability of a relational database can become an issue. The “no-sql” movement is hoping to provide an alternative option to [...]
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About a year ago, we purchased a great learning package called “Lessons in Leadership” from the Business Source.  Besides receiving a Book Library (similar to the Coles’ Notes) of the top Leadership and Financial Success books written, we also recieved five – 90 minute video modules  which include leadership sessions from five leadership gurus. I once [...]
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Here’s a scenario we see fairly often in our Grails applications. Parent object has a collection of Child objects We want the Parent’s create and edit GSPs to allow us to add/remove/update associated Child objects The controller should correctly persist changes to the collection of Child objects, including maintaining Child object ids so any other objects referencing [...]
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(Update 20091005 – I gave the same talk at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and Barcamp Vancouver 2009, in case you end up on this page from either source) We recently presented at the Turning Statistics Into Knowledge conference, jointly organized by the US Census Bureau, the OECD and the World Bank, on July 15-16 [...]
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Last night was a great Groovy meetup at the Boats.com office here in downtown Vancouver. I got to use the new Burrard Bridge dedicated bike lanes, which is always fun, but it was the meetup content that I really enjoyed. Yuri from Boats.com went through their experience of using Groovy and Grails for some real projects. Using [...]
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