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MacBook Pro – First Impressions
I just took delivery of my latest new computer from my employer. This time, instead of another run of the mill IBM compatible laptop or desktop it was a fancy new 17" MacBook Pro. We're developing software which we're supporting in Safari using the Silverlight plugin and I needed to be able to develop and [...]
Modularizing your Grails Application – Domain Classes
Posted by RyanG in Grails/Groovy, Reviews on March 10, 2010
This is the second installment of my What Grooves You? series of posts, this time discussing how to modularize your Grails application. While Grails does an awesome job of enforcing MVC once your application reaches a certain size, or you have multiple applications which may have shared components, you’re going to have to start thinking [...]
Fitting Grails in an Active Directory and NTLM SSO Groove
Posted by RyanG in Grails/Groovy, Reviews on February 10, 2010
This is my first installment in the What Grooves You? series of posts, and it deals with the first thing you’re going to need to consider if you are deploying your Grails/Groovy applications in the average corporate IT infrastructure, Single Sign On with Active Directory and NTLM. Like it or not, because all of our [...]
What Grooves You?
Posted by RyanG in Grails/Groovy, Reviews on February 5, 2010
In my "Day Job", we design and build our applications using Microsoft technologies. In particular, we’re using C#, Silverlight, and IIS to build and deploy our web applications. This makes good sense because the vendors we use are well versed in the Microsoft technology, and like the IT infrastructure of a lot of medium and [...]
Catching the Wave
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Reviews, Software on November 6, 2009
I am something of a Google Zealot, I was using the search engine back before many people knew what it was and haven’t strayed since. I’ve been using GMail for the better part of two years, and it handles ALL of my incoming mail, I even forward all of the emails from my self hosted [...]
You get what you pay for, or less!
Posted by RyanG in Photography, Reviews on September 13, 2009
So you likely know that I recently dropped and broke my Nikon SB600 flash. Disappointed as I was about this, I was already thinking of how I’d replace it. My searches for Nikon compatible flashes had always included these apparently super affordable Phoenix flashes. Now, of course, I was always very suspicious of these for [...]
Crashing at a new pad
If you’re reading this, it means that the DNS records have replicated and Random Musings is now fully hosted on my shiny Linode VPS! I’ve been steadily growing out of my previous hosting solution over on Host My Site. All things being equal they’ve served me very well, but running WordPress started to demand more [...]
UNYK Address Book
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Rants, Reviews on December 22, 2008
I just received an email today from one of my contacts on LinkedIn. It was an invitation to join this new UNYK Address Book application which is apparently in beta. I think I’ve made it clear that I’m a big fan of anything which centralizes my information and allows me to access it through a [...]
Photo Sharing Services
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Photography, Reviews on September 25, 2008
Since I became a dad, and bought a dSLR I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to store and share my pictures of my son, and other interesting stuff I shoot. As far as securely storing it locally, I have a sizable RAID setup that handles redundantly storing my pictures on two drives, [...]
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