Only a few days after SpringSource acquisition of G2One, Graeme Rocher announced the release of Grails 1.0.4 this past Friday (latest Spring 2.5.6, some new features, all that ahead of the 1.1 version).

I find myself going back to a few unrelated articles about how to use git-svn because I keep forgetting the exact commands. Also not everybody is familiar with the concept of using subversion (svn) and git together. Here is a good guide.

Cloud computing could be the next big thing that truly changes technology.

Gzip and Deflate are two popular HTTP compression methods. I ran a test in C# to figure out which one is faster and by how much. Read this article to see which won the speed test and how to implement Gzip and Deflate HTTP compression in your website.

NeverBlock now enables concurrent Ruby network operations that are much faster than threaded ones. An explanation of Ruby's socket hierarchy and how it was modified for NeverBlock support. Also benchmarks against simulated back ends.

In this four minute tutorial I'm presenting how to remotely debug Java web applications in Apache Tomcat and JBoss containers. This tutorial may be useful if you deployed your application on the remote server and want to debug it in this particular environment.

Today IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft.

ServiceMix Kernel is a small container based on OSGi. The latest release allows external clients to connect to it and issue commands using a simple protocol implemented on top of TCP or SSL. However, this remoting protocol has some drawbacks as the internals makes it unable to do another remote login from a remote session. In addition to that, completion and history do not really work great.

GlassFish v3 Prelude launched recently and bundles Java DB, Sun's supported version of Apache Derby. As you may already know, GlassFish v3's foundations are based on HK2, some Hundred Kilobytes Kernel with a module subsystem and component model that can run on top of OSGI.

This will be a series of 3 blogs describing a step-by-step approach to building and deploying GWT applications in the SpringSource dm Server™

A brand new JBoss Cache based Hibernate Second Level Cache provider was released a few weeks back for the JBoss Cache 1.4.x and Hibernate 3.2.x series which performs much better than previous similar providers.

Sun Microsystems announced the availability and support of the their latest application server: GlassFish version 3 Prelude. The application server is a lightweight and based on modular architecture. The new server is also a preview to the next version of java enterprise edition (JEE 6). Let's have look at Gfv3's features.

With more than 100 million downloads, MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database. MySQL's popularity is indicative of the growing adoption of open-source software. Developers are using open-source software because it offers them a reliable and low-cost alternative for developing their applications. This adoption trend extends to middleware too. For example, open-source servers are replacing proprietary servers in many enterprises. Case in point: GlassFish, an open-source, enterprise-quality, Java EE 5-compliant application server, enjoys significant popularity.

GlassFish is fast becoming the most popular web development platform. When you consider the feature-rich v3 Prelude release, the rise of GlassFish no surprise. With almost 8 million downloads of Glassfish in the last 12 months, and 250,000 product registrations in the same time period, it looks like it's here to stay.

Did you know that you can set php.ini values right inside the .htaccess file? It’s actually very easy.

This blog shows how to get started with Edge Rails (2.2, almost there) using JRuby. The blog uses JRuby 1.1.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude b28c to deploy a simple Rails app.

The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.2.27 of the Apache Tomcat Connectors. It contains connectors, which allow a web server such as Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS and Sun Web Server to act as a front end to the Tomcat web application server.

In this tutorial I will show you a short and simple way how to create a backup copy of your MySQL database using the mysqldump utility.

I thought it would be interesting to get community feedback on the following problem. The basic requirement is to write a web based survey tool. Of course, my preference for this would be Java, and I jumped to some conclusions on what frameworks I should use to implement it.

Spring framework has been an unofficial standard for buliding java based enterprise applications. SpringSource, the company that developed Spring framework recently launched SpringSource dm Server, a completely modular, OSGi-based Java server to run enterprise Java applications. dm server brings simplicity to both developers and operations team.

Proxy for Google Chart. Servlet requests Google Chart API and caches the generated image. So all the sub-sequent requests will be served right from your own site. It lets you keep Google Charts limit (50 000 requests per user) and improve the performance.

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Many developers are not aware of everything an htaccess file can do for them. I have provided the following cheatsheet as a reference for a handful of the more used functions.

Kaazing Gateway is an open source solution that provides full-duplex communication from the browser to any TCP-based back-end service (for example, JMS, JMX, IMAP, Jabber, and so on), enabling developers to code directly against back-end services, using "pure" JavaScript without having to implement complex server-side procedures to bridge various protocols to the browser over HTTP. Developers can also create take advantage of Web Sockets using technologies such as Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. However, this feature is currently only available through Kaazing's commercial Enterprise Gateway offering.

There maybe a few of you out there (when I mean few, hopefully a few million :)) that maybe interested in how Terracotta collects its Distributed Objects that is no longer in use. Ok here goes...