Lately 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 instances of the app. It has become [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, we here at Cantina are big fans of Groovy and Grails, and we are disappointed that the language is not used more widely. To do our part to spread joy that is Groovy, we’ve started a group on Meetup.com for Boston-based users (start local!). Check us out here: http://www.meetup.com/Grails-Boston. Our focus [...]

It’s been a few weeks now since I signed up with the group here at Cantina, and so far I’ve had a great time. I’ve had the opportunity to learn quite a bit about online video distribution & technologies, expand my knowledge of Flex / Flash, play around with Amazon’s Cloud solutions, and learn the [...]