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 [...]
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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 [...]
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