Auto-wire Beans to Grails Controller

Right now I’m in San Francisco. Besides still busy working on some Java project assignments, I also wish to enjoy the fresh breeze of the city. So instead of spending much time online about my city-impressions,
I want to briefly share some grails discoveries and run out to the windy streets of San Francisco!
It is possible [...]

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Magic grails refresh!

From time to time when I try to run my grails application from the Run Dialog in Eclipse, I end up with an Error message which simply states “Variable references empty selection: ${project_loc}“. On grails.org there’s info how to set up your Eclipse Environment for grails and there’s also info. about ${project_loc}. Unfortunately it didn’t help me [...]

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JavaOne – Grails in Depth…

While I am still making my own discoveries about grails and groovy in a somewhat sleepless state, I came across the following “Grails in Depth” slides from the JavaOne Conference.

Graeme Rocher’s presentation is definitely a comprehensive overview of the grails framework. For those who are curious, I would suggest you take a look at the slides!

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Weekend groovin’

The entire week passed by working on a grails/groovy project. Yet the weekend wasn’t groovy at all! While working on the project, I realized that there were a bunch of configuration settings that I didn’t take care of. Perhaps I am going to write about some of my grails discoveries within a short time.
While I was searching for some energy spreading [...]

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Spring Cleaning

Spring is here; almost leaving its place for summer. It’s time to detox your body, invite fresh fruits and vegetables to your table, jump around in the green and feel more energetic… bla bla bla:) That all sounds to cliche; like from a fitness magazine, doesn’t it?
Sometimes the only thing we need is an emotional [...]

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Firestarter…

This Saturday (May 17th) I’m planning to attend the SQL Learning Day Fire Starter event at the Microsoft Irvine California office. The event aims to bring developers and IT Pros together to share their content.

 
Here is some info about the presenters I know: James Johnson, President of the Inland Empire .NET User’s Group (IEDOTNETUG), will be presenting [...]

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Spirit of Flight

Currently I’m so busy; I only managed to escape to this web hideaway…
The weather was so clear yet windy today that it reminded me of a picture which is one of my all time favorites. I cannot call it a masterpiece… Sometimes I even come across some calendars or puzzles that use the image.
The picture is [...]

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Promoting Istanbul and finding out why there’s always a reason to eat cake!

Recently I have been talking about a short Istanbul video; which I created for Digigirlz Day. Although I shared the file on Digigirlz Live Spaces, I decided to post it here once again.

The video is a slide-show like mini movie, which includes interesting global and cultural facts about Istanbul and its people. Unfortunately I could only [...]

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Books, a movie and some Monday kitsch

Yesterday I was thinking about the origin of some words as I remembered one of my reference books, which I had to leave in Istanbul when I moved to California. It is sad to part from your books… I love Internet, mobile phones, social networking, my Nintendo DS Lite, Sci-Fi Stuff etc.; but I’d always choose [...]

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Silverl(n)ight(mare) Cast: The Adventurer, the Philosopher and the Developer

At the Digigirlz event, the attending girls recorded various movies with mobile-phones and uploaded all videos to Silverlight Streaming (SLS). Initially I had planned to set up a Silverlight 2 application to access the videos. My application would have support for a service to access our SLS account through the SLS SDK and then all files in our SLS account [...]

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