The Grails easyb plugin has a nifty feature for obtaining instances of service classes. Simply call inject along with the name of your service (i.e. “dateService”) and it’ll auto-magically be available as a variable.

Before you can use this feature, you first must install the easyb plugin like so:

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Ever watched the movie Contact or read the book? Interestingly enough, the organization behind those big “listening” telescopes featured in the aforementioned story recently open sourced a series of projects designed to help infer non-noise from noise.

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On the heels of easyb’s newest release and the addition of a Google App Engine plugin for easyb comes another plugin: easyb-gaelyk. Briefly,

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With the release of easyb 0.9.8, a new plugin has hit the streets that enables easyb to more easily verify Google App Engine applications running locally.

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The easyb team is proud to announce the release of easyb 0.9.8! easyb 0.9.8 includes a host of new features, many of which are available due to the reworking of story execution by Richard Vowles. easyb stories are now executed in logical order rather than sequential; thus, for example, after type clauses can be defined anywhere in a story. Shared stories now work across files too.

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My friend Ken Sipe often gives a presentation entitled “So you want to be an Architect” where he explores the role of an architect — a lot of people attend this talk so I was most interested in catching up with him to discuss this subject in more detail.

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Not long ago, I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Eliot Horowitz, the CTO of 10gen (the commercial company behind MongoDB). In this podcast, Eliot talks about MongoDB, which is a scalable, high-performance, open source document database. Eliot does a wonderful job of describing how MongoDB can fit into your toolkit and how it differs from alternatives like CouchDB.

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If you’re exploring the world of NoSQL databases, then MongoDB — sometimes billed as the NoSQL RDBMS — deserves a place on your list. In IBM developerWorks “MongoDB: A NoSQL datastore with (all the right) RDBMS moves“, you’ll learn all about MongoDB’s custom API, interactive shell, and support for RDBMS-style dynamic queries, as well as quick and easy MapReduce calculations.

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The open source BI, reporting, and ETL space is bursting at the seams with capable tools. In fact, I recently had a conversation with Tim Berglund regarding open source business intelligence where he specifically mentions two highly regarded tools: Pentaho and Talend. These tools do everything under the sun when it comes to BI, including ETL.

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I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Alex Miller and hear this thoughts on concurrency. In this podcast, Alex talks about various concurrency models, such as actors, agents, and dataflow (just to name a few). Alex does a great job of explaining why parallel programming is challenging (to do correctly, that is) and is able to elaborate on each model’s pros and cons.

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