Coding by Convention with Grails

Not so long ago the 0.3-Version of grails was released. A good reason for me to check what this coding-by-convention is all about.

An it seem to be all great! The opposite is the application i am working with. And with our app all came up with good intentions for the following reasons:

• being flexible: The cutomers/users dont have to decide what they want or what they need, we can configure this later…
• being different: the different companies dont want to adjust their internal workflows and they dont have to. we can configure all the differences

This is becoming more and more configuration with every new implemented feature. In the end your are not a developer any more, your are a configurer. –> Configuration Hell!

Coding-by-convention must be precise. You must exactly know whats best, what you need or how to name something. No more maybies.

Ressources for grails:

• www.grail.org
• Sven Haiges blog

Misc Java Notes

• Intelligent WEB-GUI-Components (kind of Ajax):
  • example one
  • example two
• New eclipse version: What’s new in Eclipse 3.2?
• Java-classpath-configuring in Windows: with the following two Batch-Files it is possible to add all the files of a directory to the classpath. (Copied from here)

  build.bat
  ---------
  set CP=
  
  for %%i in (lib*.jar) do call cp.bat %%i

  cp.bat
  ------
  set CP=%CP%;%1

• how to let tomcat destroy a session. Two options: in the web.xml-configuration or in ur application.

Online word processing

This is an ajax, online and free word processing tool including support for the widely spread doc-format!

Here you find this future ms word replacement.

Microsoft be ready, including a feature not yet supported by default in MS Word -> Save As PDF. Easy to use and all u need.