The Rails Rambler

Half my work is creating Web solutions for my clients. The other half of my work is getting it to work on Internet Explorer....

In the past 3 years I've developed 7 Grails applications for a variety of customers. And I have to make an observation: Maintaining Grai...

It's been 5 months since my last post. I have dozens of times thought "I need to post this." But -- as I was working 12X7 on a...

Half of my Grails applications use legacy AS400 databases whose tables frequently have dates stored in 6-bytes in MMDDYY format. I map those...

I've been integrating Java applications with AS400/iSeries/Systemi RPG programs for over ten years. I've covered it in my book (Java...

This really is a simple thing.... Now that I know how it works. But I was attempting to override the constraint validation messages in messa...

I always try to have a locally-based database for development. Typically I used MySQL although I may use a Windows or Unix-based desktop dev...