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 [...]

This is one of the very rare occasions where Microsoft actually did something cool. A couple days ago I needed to test one of my web apps with Internet Explorer 8 and just for giggles with IE6 – although we’ve dropped support for that dinosaur a while ago. Remembering my previous experience with IE8 and [...]

I admit it – I’m a performance junkie. I can’t stand code that just works but performs poorly. Being said, I recently fell in love with Django (a fantastic Python powered web application framework). In one of my current projects – xarmory.com – the number of requests for static resources issued during page load began [...]

I’ve spent the past week juggling with GWT, Maven 2, Eclipse, Jetty 6 and Tomcat 6. My goal was: Run GWT hosted mode using noserver switch in order to use my own application server / container. The reason for this was that I wanted to experiment with Jetty 6’s continuations and Tomcat 6’s Cometprocessor servlet [...]