I'm not convinced this will apply to many of the people who read this, but if you know someone in an unsigned band who fancies a chance of playing at this years FIB festival in Spain, then SupaJam's Fast Track to FIB contest has now opened it's doors.
We've only just put the contest live and the official PR …
I ended up reading the Grails code to figure this out, so I thought it might be useful to record.
One of the projects that I recently upgraded to Grails 1.2 makes use of Groovy HTTP-Builder. If you just pull in HTTP-Builder you'll quickly find that it's dependencies break your grails project. So under 1.1.1 and using maven, I …
Just imagine that you have a list (a long list) of names in a spreadsheet (no, it's not suitable for export and processing as a CSV) that are unhelpfully in the wrong format. In my case they looked like "FredBloggs" instead of "Fred, Bloggs".
If you happen to be using a decent, open spreadsheet this is easy to fix as …
Following the recent release of Grails 1.2.0 I've attempted to upgrade a few of the projects I work on. Some of these attempts have gone better than others.
For one of the simpler ones I only hit two problems.
Combining Acegi with Enum's defined in the same source file as domain objects no longer works. The grails bug is here …
One (probably the only one I've found so far actually) of the benefits to getting up at 6am, is that when you later discover there's 5 inches of snow on the road outside and decide it's not very sensible to try driving in it, you have time to build a snowman instead...
Having observed a sample of two(!) I have reached the conclusion that girls really can multi-task... but that's not always a good thing.
When Edward was very small he would get hiccups a lot. Sophie got them slightly less often but still enough to have noticed a repeating, and different pattern between the two of them.
When Edward got hiccups …
I started out with a virtual machine image that was 10GB in size. Within this are two partitions - the first a few hundred MB for /boot and the rest is a LVM partition. The LVM then contains swap, root and /home. In this particular case I needed to make /home bigger, I actually needed an extra couple of GB …
It doesn't seem like long ago that I made a similar post to this. In fact, I guess it wasn't really that long!
Anyway, this time it's Sophie's turn.
Sophie has been quite mobile for a while. She swivels on her stomach then rolls across the room and swivels again to reach her target! For the last couple of weeks …
Unfortunately I must admit that a nicely formatted HTML email looks rather better and more catchy as a newsletter than a simple string of plain text. This goes against my general email preference, but even I have relented in recent times and started allowing my mail client to display HTML email (although I still never send it)!
So with this …
The Grails mail plugin is an invaluable addition to most Grails based sites - it's a rare website that doesn't need to send email. Some really useful features have been sitting on it's todo list for a while, but it still does a lot as it is.
(Examples below are mostly stolen from the plugin documentation.)
It lets you …
Edward seems to be over his initial symptoms (fever, aches and tiredness) however he's not himself yet, has an intermittent cough and has since yesterday developed a very croaky voice. He's still staying at home and still enjoying lots of rest in front of the TV (he doesn't normally get to watch it, so it's working well to keep him …
Liz has now spoken to our GP who has "confirmed" Edward as having swine flu.
Actual testing is no longer being done as too many new cases are being reported, however the GP said that Edward's symptoms combined with his close contact with the confirmed case (who was actually tested) last week at his nursery is enough to consider Edward …
It seems likely that Edward has Swine Flu!
He developed a high temperature (about 39) and tiredness on the afternoon/evening of Tuesday 7th July. He didn't sleep very well at all last night and has been intermittently complaining of hurting limbs. He also has a constantly running nose. Apart from that though he seems to be mostly OK, just a …
I don't often repeat quotes for the sake of it, but I recently noticed this one in a signature on a mailing list and quite liked it:
"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss …
Grails 1.1.1 has been out for a while now. For those people who use grails directly the upgrade path is pretty simple (download, install, run "grails upgrade"). However for those of us who haven decided to build our projects via maven, the path seems to be much less clear.
There is a large mailing list thread or a more succinct …
Last year SupaJam ran a contest to offer an unsigned band the chance to play at a huge music festival in Spain. They got over a thousand entries and one lucky band got flown out to Spain for a few days and got to play live at the festival.
This year the SupaJam site has been revamped and the new …
Some time ago (about 2 years according to the file timestamps) I created a git repository to house all of my random personal files (letters, tax returns, random notes, etc).
Unfortunately at some point in the last two years I started to add in assorted other bits that really didn't belong, just because I needed somewhere to put them. To …
Two days ago, just after dark it started to snow. Pretty soon, merely a few hours later in fact, the road outside looked like this...
It's times like that when I'm very please I mostly work from home and hence have no concerns about about having to make a difficult journey through the snow in the morning.
However, it's times …
I am very pleased (and still rather scared) to announce the birth of Sophie Pither.
She was born early in the morning on 10th January and weighed in at 7lb 12oz.
So far, excluding the expected lack of sleep, everyone is doing well.
This year Liz has been extremely prepared with Christmas. She really wanted to keep the seasonal stress and last minute effort required to a minimum - no need to encourage an early birth after all.
So Liz started our Christmas shopping about three months ago! Apart from a couple of bits that actually couldn't be bought earlier, she had finished …