User Dave Cherry

Blogs that I've written

• First blog entry containing an image.
• Grails and the power of code by convention.
• GroovyChart - snapshot binary release available.
• Interesting tomcat memory issue on my VPS today
• Broken calendar all last month.
• Grails contentmanager plugin
• Have you tried your site without CSS and Javascript?
• Grails contentmanager plugin release 0.2 out
• Wrapping JFreeChart as a builder for Groovy
• New content in the articles section
• Syntax Highlighter javascript library looks great.
• Getting the fck-editor working on Grails 1.0-RC4
• More articles on their way!
• Updates to the site and the office server
• The importance of good data security
• Progress with GroovyChart - the JFreeChart builder for Groovy
• GroovyChart - first hurdle removed!
• First day at the Groovy and Grails exchange.
• findAll path in Groovy.
• Are we prone to over optimising code?
• Importing a Grails plugin into Intellij 8
• Using jstat for GC monitoring in a running JVM
• Change of precedence in submit action for forms.
• One week on - progress with JFreeChart groovy builder
• Simple use of the FCKeditor in a Grails site.
• Groovychart, refactoring and improvements
• Moving on to the database layer..
• Transition to Weceem CMS from Contentmanager
• down time this last week.
• Jumping through hoops to test with IE6 on Vista
• Running grails on a virtual server with limited resources
• The coders corner, new look and feel
• I broke the build (ooops)
• Groovy XML articles..
• Web browsers that we are now supporting
• Good news for fckeditor in Grails
• Reading another blog about mkdirs in java reminds me of a gotcha
• Using MigLayout with Swing for easier forms
• Setting up tomcat for SSL, and also email provision.
• We're applying for technorati
• New releses of Groovy and Grails!
• Problems with missing DOCTYPE on internet explorer

Content that I've written

• Dynamic URLs and SEO don't always meet well
• A guide to mapping databases in Grails with GORM
• Role based security and authentication with Tomcat
• Introduction to reducing thread contention in Java
• Getting groovy - an introduction to the Groovy language
• Formatting numbers, dates and other types into Strings using Java
• Groovy part 2 - focusing on the language
• Read and Write XML with Groovy - includes ATOM example
• Setting up Grails to work with JEE role based authentication
• Reading ZIP, GZIP and JAR files with Java inbuilt classes
• Introduction to GSQL, executing statements and queries with Groovy SQL