Steve brings over seven years of experience in a variety of computing fields. The majority of this time has been spent developing rich web applications, but he has also developed mobile phone applications and studied machine learning, data mining, and social network analysis. Over the years he has worked as a Systems Engineer for Radview Software, an IT Systems Analyst / Developer for Communispace Corp., and a Web Developer for Tufts University. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Trinity College in Hartford, CT as well as a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Tufts University.
We recently announced our next Grails Meetup, and it’s a good one: Burt Beckwith, one of the Grails core developers will present two topics to the group. They are: “The Grails Cache Plugins“ The new Grails cache plugins build on the Spring 3.1 Caching API to provide easy [...]
Read More The next Boston Grails meetup has been scheduled! Since the last round of Lightning Talks was successful, let’s do it again! Do you have an interesting plugin or tool you want to show off? How about a deep dive into your favorite Grails feature? Have a cool Grails [...]
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GR8Conf is the conference to attend for those of you interested in the Groovy ecosystem (e.g. Groovy, Grails, Gradle, Griffon). Cantina had a presence in attendance at the main session in Copenhagen last year, and it was a fantastic experience. Surrounded by and learning from brilliant people (including [...]
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A large milestone in the Grails lifecycle occurred several weeks ago with the release of version 2.0.0. Grails has very frequent releases; milestones, release candidates, major/minor versions, etc, which is wonderful as the framework grows. The pain point comes in when working on projects that are all using [...]
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The 2.0 release candidate has been . . . released! Whats new? Why do I care? How can I get more productive with the latest releases? How good is eclipse these days? What about STS? Fellow member Jim Mason will present and demonstrate the upcoming features in Grails [...]
Read More Date: July 14th, 2011 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Location: Cantina, 15 Cypress St., Newton Center, MA 02459 Hosted by: Steve Pember For our next meetup, Burt Beckwith will be giving a talk on Cloud Foundry: “Cloud Foundry is a revolutionary open-source PaaS service from VMware and [...]
Read MoreThe next Grails Boston meetup has beens scheduled up on our Meetup.com page! It will be an introduction to GPars, a concurrent programming library for Groovy… which, as of Groovy 1.8 is now bundled with the language distro. It will be towards Groovy beginners as well, so anyone [...]
Read MoreIn my last post I discussed the merits of using the Liquibase database schema migration system as well some recommended practices we’ve been using. As a follow-up, I thought I’d post some of the code I left out as well some suggestions when introducing Liquibase to an existing [...]
Read MoreThe Active Record migration system in Rails is one of the (few!) advantages that Rails can claim over Grails. Hibernate and the GORM are fantastic pieces of software but they – like all things – are not without their limitations. For example, it is hardly advisable to run [...]
Read MoreLately I’ve been working on a multi-tenant web app that contains a good-size number of domain objects. Within these objects, there exists a sub-set belonging to a root object, and the need arose to be able to quickly duplicate / populate the data within these objects between different [...]
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