more blogs

I’ve added two blogs on Blogspot since this blog is mostly Java related. I’ve started learning Haskell so I decided to keep a separate blog for other coding topics not related to Java. The links are in the blogroll. I also started a photo blog.

Groovy/Grails in Eclipse on OS X

I’ve been working with Grails for just a short time now and so far I’m fully impressed in the time savings it offers for development. The other factor the impresses me is that it all just makes intuitive sense for someone who has worked with a variety of web frameworks before.

I ran into an issue with Grails 1.0-RC1 with the Eclipse plugin on Mac. The framework was complaining that it could not find tools.jar which doesn’t exist on the Mac. I believe Apple for some reason merged the contents of tools.jar with another system jar. Anyhow, so far I have safely commented out a reference to tools.jar in conf/groovy-starter.conf. Other than that issue, I have had far fewer than there might be in setting up a full blown Struts 2/Spring/Hibernate project by hand.

I was just reading about the IntelliJ support for Groovy/Grails over on Glen Smith’s blog and think I will have to try it out. I have never used IntelliJ before but if it has better language support for Groovy than Eclipse currently does it would be worth switching.

Leopard so far

I’ve upgraded two Macs at home without issues during the upgrade. My work MBP is still running Tiger and probably will be for quite a while.

I’ve had issues with Time Machine really dragging down system performance until the first complete sync was completed. For some reason the first synchronization failed for several days. My complaint on Time Machine is that there is no immediate link or callout for viewing its log. There should be. I assume it is someplace in /var but I have not gone there yet.

Terminal is a big improvement.

XDMCP seems broken in some way. Akthough I can connect to my Ubuntu box, the keyboard doesn’t work now on the login screen. Ouch. The old trick of switching the keyboard to extended layout has no affect.

Lack of Java 6 support is of course just a shame.

Overall my impression is that performance sufers just a bit.