Stephans Blog

Grails is a great project. I’m currently implementing a webish2.0 website and with Grails my implementation speed is very fast. What Groovy and Grails lack though, is a decent IRC channel. I’ve been on IRC for 15 years and IRC helped me through Java, Servlets, Python, Ruby, Delphi and other technologies. There is a #groovy […]

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 […]

The JRuby team has accomplished an amazing thing, running Ruby on Rails with JRuby. So is Grails dead? No! Why should someone then use Grails and not JRuby on Rails? Ruby is a very nice and clean language, Rails has a lot of extensions and documentation. But Groovy is more similar to Java, like Java […]

Google trends is a nice idea, and I had to apply it adhoc to Java, Ruby, Python and C#. Interesting results, I can see a decline in Java! We’re doomed :-)
And the Rails evangelists jump in and present this. Probably people would search for that or even that because Rails mostly doesn’t find RoR though. […]

Grails 0.1 has been released. Congratulations to the team and thanks for the great support.

With all the buzz in scripting languages (again :-) often programming languages are divided into weak versus strong typed or dynamic versus static typed languages. I don’t know how often some of us have seen this discussion, the first time for me was when I had to argue with C++ developers because I wanted […]