According to the release note this is a release candidate, but should be stable enough to be tested out in production environments (on your own risk as usual). This release contains a lot of bug / security fixes as well as the much anticipated sub-task support!
I've been mostly been doing Java and Groovy programming over the last years. When I read that PHP got support for Closures (okay I'm a little late to the party..) I wanted to see if they could be used to create builder patterns similar to those we find everywhere in the Groovy world.
Pisa is pretty small. A day is more than enough to see the place.
Some notes from the days we spent in Nice and a day trip to Eze and Monaco.
Some experiences made during two weeks of Intarrail in Europe summer 2010.
Last week I read about the Mozilla Account Manager project. As a little Sunday hacking project I decided to see how much hassle it would be to write a Grails Shiro plugin adapter adding login and logout functionality. This turned out to be surprisingly simple.
I've just installed the latest Ubuntu release and done a Grails related performance test.
The boot performance has been further improved since the last release, but is it time well spent? Does it really matter whether the operating system boots in 9 or 15 seconds? Wouldn't users save more time with improved suspend / hibernate support?
The good: Better performance and hardware compatibility. The ugly: I'm absolutely baffled by how many user interface regressions they've been able to squeeze into this release!
The Maven team has released the first beta of Maven 3
One of my biggest annoyances with dynamic languages like Groovy is the long time it takes between a spelling error and detection. Would it make sense to make IDE's warn you about likely spelling mistakes kinda like Word does when you're writing good old fashion documents?