Oct 19, 2011

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is Now Available!

Posted Oct 19, 2011

This is exciting stuff! New features and API's, enhancements to existing ones, and a unified development for phones and tablets. You may want to check the highlights here

Oct 13, 2011

Fixing Errors in STS when Moving Grails Projects

Posted Oct 13, 2011

Problem
Did you transfer or check out your projects to another computer and found out that your projects contains errors due to missing plugins? The error is something like:
Project is missing required source folder: '.link_to_grails_plugins/...

Solution
Right click on the Project -> Grails Tools -> Refresh Dependencies

Oct 11, 2011

Dart: A new programming language from El Goog

Posted Oct 11, 2011

Google released a new web programming language called Dart. Still remember Go? I don't know that happened there, but maybe "Dart lang" will be the new "Go lang".

Google makes an effort to make it work both in client and server-side web programming which is a plus for any developer. Less languages to learn. It's about time, I think; Javascript is really getting old. I tried playing with Dart at http://try-dart-lang.appspot.com and it's very intuitive if you have a background in Javascript / Java / C++ / C#.

The ultimate goal of Dart is to replace Javsacript; feature-wise and performance-wise. I'm still skeptical about the idea  happening soon but maybe this is the future.  But instead of fighting to be the best, why not just co-exist happily?  I'll be happy either way.

If this language becomes mainstream, I'd want to be a part of a team or at least contribute to what they will do; which is hopefully a very good web framework inspired by Ruby on Rails or Grails.

If you're interested to discuss ideas with the Dart Team, here's a link to the Reddit discussion. Quite interestingly, read that Google has allocated significant resources on this project.

For more information, go to their website: http://www.dartlang.org