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Easy ORM-ness for GAE, part 2

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
As I’ve blogged and written about on various occasions, Google App Engine doesn’t just scale apps: it can also help you assemble them rapidly, using...

The cloud according to CloudBees

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
The notion of the cloud has certainly evolved from some abstract definition of shared resources into a model whereby infrastructures have differentiated...

.NET eye for the Java guy

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
I recently had the pleasure of catching up with my old friend, Ted Neward. As anyone who has ever had the occasion of inquiring into Ted’s opinions knows...

SQL for the NoSQL

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
But there is one slight issue with NoSQL. You can’t use SQL. This is, unfortunately for the time being, a non-starter in certain business domains. For...

Google datastore discussion

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
Google’s datastore, known as Bigtable, is a column-oriented NoSQL datastore that is accessible via Google App Engine. Rather than the schemas you’d...

JSON-able domain objects

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
JSON has arguably become the new lingua franca of the Internet; that is, JSON has become preferable for browser to server communication — over that of...

Easy ORM-ness for GAE

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
Objectify-Appengine is one of an emerging class of tools that extend the convenience of NoSQL, in this case by providing a Hibernate-style mapping layer...

CouchDB goes mobile

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with two super smart guys working for CouchOne (FYI, CouchOne was founded by Damien Katz, the creator of CouchDB...

Moving to Git from Subversion?

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
Are you thinking of using Git? Are you coming from a Subversion mindset? If so, then you’ll appreciate the Git-Svn Crash Course wiki page offered by the...

Testing Grails services with easyb

over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
The Grails easyb plugin has a nifty feature for obtaining instances of service classes. Simply call inject along with the name of your service (i.e. â€...