SpringSource has bought G2One

I just read it, but I'm not sure if it is realy true, what The Register writes today. G2One is the company of Graeme Rocher and the other guys behind Groovy and Grails. SpringSource is the company behind the awesome Spring framework, which is also the base of Grails.
Hopefully there will come a lot of benefit from this acquisition for Grails. My biggest wish is, that they will bring Grails to Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi and thus onto a great OSGi infrastructure. This would also fix the most voted issue for Grails.

Girl Effect

There is chrismas coming soon. So start thinking, if buying much presents for all the people you know, is the best you can do with your money.
You can also give it to someone who can do much more with it:

GroovyMag, oh yeah!

I just read on the Grails homepage, that #1 of the GroovyMag is released.
You can buy it as a PDF online, which is great, since I come from Germany and a magazine printed for the US doesn't make any sence for me.
I'll give it try and tell you how it is.
So keep on grooving.

Groovy for Java Testing

One thing I like so much on YouTube is the mass of cool videos of talks, provided there. So have a look to this cool video:



It gives a little introduction to Groovy, it's integration to Java and it's awesome usabillity as a language for testing your Java code.
The speaker is Andres Almiray and you'll find his own blog here:
Andres Almiray's Weblog

Lotus Notes 8.0.1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the Mozilla problem

I use Lotus Notes 8.0.1 on my workstation, but on Hardy Heron I got a stupid problem with the Firefox 3.
I know, that Ubuntu currently isn't supported to run Lotus Notes on, but as my favorite OS, I tried to do it.
A nice introduction can be found here:
http://www.linuxart.de/index.php/archives/4

But there is still one problem: The Mozilla problem!
If you try to open a HTML email or open anything else, which uses the embedded SWT browser, you'll get the message: MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is set set to /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons, which isn't a Firefox directory. The correct directory would be /usr/lib/xulrunner.
To fix this, I put a shell script into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/:


sudo touch /etc/X11/Xsession.d/200-mozilla-five

sudo gedit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/200-mozilla-five

Put the following code into your script:

#!/bin/bash

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner

After restarting the X-server, Notes 8.0.1 will show you embedded HTML as expected.

Google Toolbar on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

I love the Google Toolbar, because it allows me to use Google's bookmark service embedded to my browser. So I can use the toolbar on a Mac, Windows or Linux machine and have my bookmarks everywhere I am.
But with the cool new version 3 of my favorite browser Firefox the toolbar stopped working. Firefox crashed after installing (and disabling compatibility test in Firefox ;-)).
Now a new version is available and the Toolbar is back to my Firefox :-)
But on Ubuntu there is still a problem with the bookmarks. To fix it, just type the following into your terminal:

sudo apt-get install libxul-dev libstdc++5 gcc-4.2 libstdc++6

Than reinstall the toolbar, if you allready tried without success. Now your bookmarks should work even on Ubuntu :-)

Spring MVC Error Handling

A typical problem in applications is to handle errors. In a Spring MVC based web app it is very easy, to create good error handling. A nice introduction can be found here:
http://developingdeveloper.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/handling-exceptions-in-spring-mvc-part-1/

Thanks
Josh

Things the world need

I've just seen a nice new offer from Apple.
A realy cool feature to make your iPhone 3G complete.

Just check it out:
http://gizmodo.com/5015395/apple-introduces-iphone-3g-videoconferencing-kit-zomg

Being back in training

I didn't like sport so much, till I tried running some years ago. Now I've mapped my route:



Größere Kartenansicht

The cool thing is, Google Maps shows you how long the route is. In this case it is about 10.43 miles or 16.78 km.
That's a little bit more than I expected.

Grails/GWT Tutorial I - The first steps.

After someone was asking for a basic tutorial and samle application for using the Grails GWT plugin on the Grails mailing list, I've just written one.
You can read it under http://code.google.com/p/derjanandhisblog/wiki/GWTGrailsTutorial.
It should show you, how to create a domain model, a service for RPC calls and a very basic GWT client, which calls data from the Grails app and displays it.

Hopefully I'll find enough time to extend the tutorial and the application in the next weeks, to make it real book store ;-)