Oliver’s Place

This article is the second one in my article series about fast loading web pages. The first article dealt with the Django Framework while this one is about Grails which I have recently elected as my preferred rapid web application framework. Ever since I switched from Django to Grails there was one issue that bothered [...]

The other day I was writing a medium complex HQL query for a Grails App and no matter what the line executing the query would crash like this: ?View Code GROOVYjava.lang.NullPointerException at $Proxy13.createQuery(Unknown Source) at com.acme.PerformanceService.makePerformanceSheet(PerformanceService.groovy:38) … So how the hell do we figure out what the problem given so few information? Turns out that [...]

Every Web Application Project I’ve been involved in the recent past had one thing in common: the client demanded more and more rich-client features at an ever increasing pace – without committing itself to real rich-client frameworks such as Flex or Silverlight. This leaves us with Javascript / AJAX for implementing highly dynamic User Interfaces [...]

Sometimes I can’t help but getting nostalgic when I think about the old days when Microsoft Visual Studio was the benchmark for Integrated Development Environments. Back then when I used Visual C++ 2.0 the first time, I immediately fell in love with it. The IDE ran under Windows NT (I refused to use Windows 3.1 [...]