Many milestone builds and release candidates later, the official Grails 3.1 shipped a few days ago! OCI, the new Grails home, summarizes what’s new in this release: Grails 3.1 comes…
Recently I code reviewed some of the Grails (2.4.5) code of another team (of course 🙂 ) and here’s a snippet I came across. In some “search helper service”: public…

…or why java is running fine, but jps doesn’t show it… A framework on a live system threw errors in a subdirectory of /tmp/hsperfdata_$user/… after which the /tmp/-space got…

Select2 is a plugin for HTML dropdowns built with jQuery. Select2 makes it possible to search the options in the dropdown, which comes in handy when there are a lot…

At a project I am working on we had a discussion on how to implement certain constraints. The project in question is (will be) a heavily distributed system, replacing an…

The last day of a conference week is usually short, providing a chance to go home early. However, for NLJUG members there was an extra long, sponsored afterparty with good…

This year at JavaOne we celebrate 20 years of Java. At the Community Keynote on the last day we looked into the future. We all want Java to be there…

Welcome to our blogs on the exciting JavaOne again! First some good news: today, our Grails Workshop is accepted at a conference! It’s the Technical Open Source conference www.t-dose.nl, in Eindhoven….

Sessions at JavaOne mostly are about technology Understandable, but there is more to creating software than technology. Creating great software also requires a lot of teamwork, managing, thinking and so…

Did you know you can look multiple JavaOne presentations online at the same time? Today I found this url towards live streams. Like yesterday, also today I visited 9 sessions…