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Flex on Grails: Take 2, Part 2
todolist2This is a follow-up post to Flex on Grails, Take 2.
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Flex on Grails: Take 2
When I first discovered Flex, one of my first obsessions was how to make it work with a Java backend. I’m a java developer at heart and my Java backend stack of choice back then was Spring/Hibernate-based. That’s why I published a series of full-stack articles that became quite popular. But another obsession of mine has always been productivity so when I discovered Grails, it became my new preferred environment and I started looking for ways to plug a Flex frontend into a Grails backend. All of this work culminated in the release of my Grails BlazeDS plugin which worked great but had a few limitations (only Java DTO’s, run-war instead of run-app, etc.). I mean, it worked great… until it didn’t.
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Versioning is Just Too Complex
I’m currently trying to unlearn 10 years of CVCS and Subversion certainties to learn DVCS and Git. And although a lot of people see those as a huge leap forward, I can’t help thinking it’s still way too hard. Versioning is such a basic need, it shouldn’t require that much knowledge. Right now, whether it’s […]
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How To Introduce Yourself… I Mean Practically
For years, I’ve been using a very simple but very effective technique to introduce myself in job interviews, and I’ve always got some excellent feedback about it. I’m not talking about the content here, but the format. It can always be a bit tricky to introduce yourself without diving too much into irrelevant details, or losing yourself along the way, or boring the interviewer to death. To avoid all that, I’ve learnt this technique at Axen, but since Axen doesn’t exist anymore per se, I might as well share it with you guys, because it’s always a shame to miss a good recruitment because he wasn’t clear enough during his interview. So here you go…
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WWDC 2010 Review
Still one session to attend about closures in Objective-C, and I’ll call it a week. A little bit of shopping this afternoon in order to spend my last dollars and I’ll be ready for take-off tomorrow afternoon. So it’s time for a little summary of this week. Overall, it was my first WWDC and I’m […]
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Grails/BlazeDS/Flex/iPhone Full Stack Part 2/3
In the previous episode, we built a simple Grails backend for the todolist application. In this installment, we will create a simple Flex 4 front-end for this backend. The following assumes that you have already installed Flash Builder 4 (formerly known as Flex Builder), either in standalone mode or as an Eclipse plug-in.
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Grails/BlazeDS/Flex/iPhone Full Stack Part1/3
A couple of years ago, I published an article on this blog entitled “Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack!” and this article became very popular. Actually it broke my daily visits record. Today I’m gonna try to break this record again.
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Grails BlazeDS 4 Integration Plugin
One of the main goals I’ve been pursuing for a few months is the integration of Grails with Flex 4. I need to rework ConferenceGuide‘s administration backend to make it more ergonomic so that we can cover more events, and ever since I discovered Flex 4 niceties, I couldn’t think of doing that with anything […]
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Here Comes Grails APNs Plugin
That’s it. I’ve released my first Grails plugin ever. Woooo! Champagne! If you follow my Twitter feed, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been playing a lot with Apple Push Notification service lately (APNs for friends). Indeed, ConferenceGuide still requires a data connection, which can be problematic on a lot of events because they’re usually abroad […]
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My Discoveries of the Year
Every year, the main reason why I go to Devoxx is to discover new stuff. For me it’s all about technology watch. The internet and RSS feeds are my main tech watch instrument but there is one thing that is harder to get through RSS: feelings. Conferences like Devoxx are a unique opportunity, not only […]