ALTERthought Blogs Archives: August 2009
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17 August 2009
Grails App in ~40 hrs (part 4)
The last post covered the kickoff to the ‘twodo‘ application– where we created our Grails application, wired in JSecurity via plugin, and created a few of the core Domain objects the system will need.
In this post we will refine the general look and feel of the User Interface, as well as start building the core [...]
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10 August 2009
Building a Grails App in ~40 hrs (part 3)
In part 1 and part 2 of this series we introduced a challenge to build a reasonably non-trivial application in just a week. We have decided on Grails as the primary technology framework, and once we have a prototype working, we hope to deploy it to a cloud computing platform like Google’s AppEngine [...]
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8 August 2009
Talk @ UVa MSMIT
I gave a talk today at my alma mater for the Executive Masters in Management Information Technology Northern Virginia section. Professor Ryan Nelson was kind enough to invite me to present a combination of topics pertaining to both Agile Project Management and Rapid Planning. All-in-all, I had a great time — even if it is [...]
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3 August 2009
Building A Grails App in 40 hrs
In a prior post, I talked about an experiment — to build a working task management application in about 40 hours.
The high-level constraints governing the experiment were as follows:
The application should be web-based and ‘modern’ (AJAX, friendly URL’s, etc)
It should be reasonably non-trivial.
It should be developed as it were going to someday become a Software [...]
