EveryBlock, the Django-powered hyperlocal news and data site, has included feeds of items recently added to the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County online catalog. Mecklenburg county (North Carolina) residents can find out about the newest books and DVDs added to the more than 20 branches in that library system. This site, launched in [...]
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Our new e-commerce schema released
November 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Our redesigned web site launched late last night, which includes an entirely new inverted e-commerce application. Our original site was built upon a hybrid e-commerce framework (part in-house Java, and part open source PHP-based osCommerce), implemented purely for expediency’s sake to make our holiday shopping season 2007 launch date. However, this temporary solution quickly proved [...]
Making better Grails progress
April 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’ve moved onto the “real” Grails project at work now, our system Administration “Admin” Tool, and in-house content management, customer service, fulfillment, and reporting tool. Developing controllers, especially method expressions, has been a bit tricky for me, the concept is still very new, but I’m really grasping how to set up the domain classes and [...]
Migrating our corporate site to Grails
March 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’m pretty jazzed… our CTO and lead system engineers have agreed to migrate our company web site from a traditional Java platform to a Grails-based on as part of a larger database and system refactoring project. Building an in-house Admin Tool on Grails is one thing — the public never sees that part of our [...]
Grails progress
March 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’m getting the “groove” (couldn’t pass that up!) on Groovy and Grails. I’m the only non-Java developer at work, so the whole MVC platform is still quite new to me. But, I’m starting to get the hang of it, and Grails is most certainly a nice transition into this type of environment. The thought of [...]
Grails Update
March 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
My Grails Booksmarks project is going pretty well so far… after about 5 or 6 times of having to blow out and rebuild the project. The most difficult task for me was not Grails-related, but rather IDE-related. I had a heck of a time getting my Eclipse Grails set-up to work, until a co-worker pointed [...]
Rails 2.0 woes
February 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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