Archive | October, 2009

26 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding – Summary

UPDATE Looking for more marketing books? Here’s a list of good ones that I’ve read recently (or am planning to read).
I just read The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and was happy that I set aside a couple of hours to do so.
I’m currently working on a new product and a lot of [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Installing SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) with Groovy and Grails Support

UPDATE There’s an excellent article on the Grails website that walks through installing and using STS with Grails support. I recommend you use that guide instead of the one below.
STS 2.2.0 was released today with support for Groovy and Grails development. If you’re new to STS, the route to getting everything working might [...]

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20 October 2009 ~ 3 Comments

REVISITED: What is Right with Grails and Wrong with Maven

With regard to my previous post, it looks like I pulled the Maven command from an old set of documentation. I believe the preferred way to create a new Grails app with Maven is a command like the following:
mvn grails:create-app appName
I can’t say I don’t have anything against Maven, because I don’t like it. [...]

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15 October 2009 ~ 7 Comments

What is Right with Grails and Wrong with Maven

This just cracks me up.Here’s how to create a Grails app using the Grails command line:grails create-app demoAnd here’s how to create the app using the Maven command line:mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-4:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.grails -DarchetypeArtifactId=grails-maven-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.1 -DgroupId=example -DartifactId=demo

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