Archive for March, 2007



Answering a question from the comments some posts back.
“Hi again,
You might have read this …
http://www.michaelyuan.com/blog/2007/03/28/are-rails-and-grails-scalable/
[…]”
Well, a vendor says his product is best? Why should he say something else?
“While Grails beats Rails in the benchmark, it looks to me neither of them is scalable in a multi-core environment. From our internal tests, JBoss Seam easily out-performs […]

I’ve been an Intellij IDEA user from the very, very beginning. I think we bought some of the first licenses. I’ve been promoting IDEA against Eclipse cultures for years. IDEA is the most usable IDE around. I’ve got several companies I worked for to buy IDEA although they are Eclipse shops. I got all people […]

Following the benchmarking, I think it’s a very good idea from Graeme to stop benchmarking until Grails gets some optimizations. Currently performance should not be a big concern for the Grails developers. Keeping up the good work with implementing features and fixing bugs should stay their main concern.
When looking at the Grails versus Rails […]

Rails versus Grails

Hu, the performance wars seem to have to started. I’m not really into performance, as long as it’s fast enough. But some people demand an optimized Rails setup. As far as I’m concerned the benchmarks by Graeme was about two out of the box solutions. They showed that people can decide to use Grails over […]

Leaving SnipSnap :-(

Hello, I’ll be leaving my employer Fraunhofer FIRST in April.
This means I’ll also leave SnipSnap. After years as one of the founders and one of the leads this makes me sad, because I invested a lot of ideas and emotions into the project. As I created the name, the logo and some of the […]




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Stephan Schmidt is the project manager for Reposita. He is one of the founders of SnipSnap and is the lead on Radeox. Stephan has been working as a project manager and CTO and is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. He can be reached at stephan@reposita.org. All views are only his own.

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