JSON has arguably become the new lingua franca of the Internet; that is, JSON has become preferable for browser to server communication — over that of XML, which, as it happens, is quite verbose. JSON’s lightweight-ness makes it easily readable and easy to parse. For example, in the case of a Retweet object (which represents [...]

Objectify-Appengine is one of an emerging class of tools that extend the convenience of NoSQL, in this case by providing a Hibernate-style mapping layer between your application and the GAE datastore. In this month’s Java development 2.0 series dubbed “Twitter mining with Objectify-Appengine, Part 1” you’ll learn about Objectify’s handy, JPA-friendly (but not dependent) API; [...]

Objectify-Appengine is one of an emerging class of tools that extend the convenience of NoSQL, in this case by providing a Hibernate-style mapping layer between your application and the GAE datastore.

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I recently had the pleasure of chatting with two super smart guys working for CouchOne (FYI, CouchOne was founded by Damien Katz, the creator of CouchDB). In this conversation, hosted by IBM developerWorks, Nitin Borwankar and Aaron Miller discuss the effort to port CouchDB to the Android platform and more importantly, why you should care [...]

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with two super smart guys working for CouchOne (FYI, CouchOne was founded by Damien Katz, the creator of CouchDB).

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Are you thinking of using Git? Are you coming from a Subversion mindset? If so, then you’ll appreciate the Git-Svn Crash Course wiki page offered by the Git team. This one-stop shop describing core Git commands and analogous SVN commands has been quite helpful to me. You too can clone, commit, pull, and push with the best of them, baby!

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Are you thinking of using Git? Are you coming from a Subversion mindset? If so, then you’ll appreciate the Git-Svn Crash Course wiki page offered by the Git team. This one-stop shop describing core Git commands and analogous SVN commands has been quite helpful to me. You too can clone, commit, pull, and push with [...]

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: %>grails install-plugin easyb You can place [...]