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Grails Best Practices

Basic best practices for Grails projects gathered from mailing list, Stack Overflow, blogs, podcasts and internal discussions at IntelliGrape, categorized under controller, service, domain, views...

Amit Jain
on Apr 03, 2012
Steven Renders on Microsoft Dynamics NAV

We interviewed Steven Renders, author of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting. Dynamics NAV is a nearly 30 year old Enterprise Resource Planning platform that currently boasts over 300,000 users across 42 countries.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 02, 2012
Scala or Java? Exploring myths and facts

The popularization of the Scala programming language and the comparisons with other languages has greatly increased the amount of posts in blogs and social nets, many of those containing many claims that can be outdated, superficial or biased. This article explains the common issues about the language and its environment, favoring a more accurate and balanced assessment.

Julio Faerman
on Mar 29, 2012
The Day I Became Unnecessary - Part 1

In the first of two articles Claudio Kerber talks about his experiences in team formation and collaboration and how empowerment, refinement and facilitation enable the free flow of knowledge and value across team members and how cohesion emerges in collaborative teams.

Claudio Kerber
on Mar 27, 2012
Tips to Developers Starting on Large Applications

You've just started working on a large Java application. How would you go about understanding the code base? In a typical enterprise Java team, most of the senior developers who can help you are likely to be quite busy. Documentation will be sparse. You will need to quickly deliver and prove yourself to the team. How would you resolve such a situation? This article offers some suggestions.

Choudary Kothapalli
on Mar 26, 2012
Interview with Simon Cropp of Fody and Notify Property Weaver

Last month we introduced Simon Cropp’s Notify Property Weaver. Since then we’ve had a chance to talk with Simon about IL weaving in general and his other project, the extensible AOP tool Fody.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 23, 2012
Ember.js: Rich Web Applications Done Right

This article walks you through building an application with Ember.js, showing the MVC system, data binding, as well as how to build GUI and Touch support.

Joachim Haagen Skeie
on Mar 22, 2012
Anil Gaur on Cloud Computing Support in Java EE 7

Java EE 7 specification includes support for cloud computing to help developers build applications that are portable across Java EE PaaS platforms. InfoQ spoke with Anil Gaur, Vice President of Software Development at Oracle, about cloud computing support in Java EE 7, project road map and timeline, cloud API in Java EE 7, and cloud development and deployment tools.

Srini Penchikala
on Mar 21, 2012
The Need to Focus on App Delivery Lifecycle in PaaS

An App Delivery Platform-as-a-Service is not only a development platform. It is also a social platform, a deployment platform, and a user engagement platform. An App Delivery Platform-asa-Service is all about delivering apps that perfectly fit the business, it’s about creating business value, it’s about enabling the business to be successful!

Johan Den Haan
on Mar 15, 2012
Martin Odersky on Typesafe Stack and the Future of Scala

In this interview with InfoQ's Editor in Chief, Michael Floyd, Martin Odersky draws the comparisons between F# and Scala, discusses the future of Scala, and addresses once and for all the question of breaking binary compatibility. He also discusses his current work on the implementation of the value class proposal, how Java might support functional programming and the new Typesafe Stack 2.0.

Michael Floyd
on Mar 12, 2012
Architecture & Design

Healthy Architectures - Using CQRS and Event Sourcing for Electronic Medical Records

The health care industry has been migrating to electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) for some time. Hopwever, problems such as performance and scalability, along with maintaining traceability and reconstructing healthcare related business events need to be addressed. The article introduces the use of techniques and patterns for providing these quality attributes.

Arunava Chatterjee
on Mar 12, 2012
Optimizing ORM Performance

Some developers dislike using object-relational mappers (ORMs) as they’ve had bad experiences with performance. This article covers some basic techniques to optimize the performance when working with an ORM and still getting all the benefits of Object-Relational mapping.

John-Daniel Trask
on Mar 07, 2012

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