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Nathan Crause - Software Developer
http://nathan.crause.name
Code snippets, tech reviews, tech commentary, how-to's
Recent Posts
Grails and Ruby on Rails OO - Kind of Odd
After having worked in Ruby on Rails and Grails for a bit now, something occurred to me that's a little odd about their designs. In this particular observation, both the frameworks end up with the same net effect (but achieve it in different ways). T...
Online Auctions The *RIGHT* Way
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bidazzled. All opinions are 100% mine. I was one of the early adopters of eBay. I used it extensively when it was still young, and prices were competitive. I recall winning a large sapphire for $70,...
Grails More Impressions - Scripts
For my next reflection on impressions with Grails, I'm going to look at scripts (in the context of little utility scripts to simplify common complex tasks). For this entry, I will compare Grails' "gant" scripts with Ruby "rake" scripts. First up, nam...
Proposed Project - Java on Rails
I've become a little disillustion with all the various agile frameworks out there. At first, I had high hopes for Ruby on Rails, but after working on it for a year and a half, I decided that Ruby is a terrible language, and Rails is an aweful framewo...
Grails Next Impressions - Some Problems
After working with Grails a bit more after my original post, I've come across some rather annoying issues. First up is an issue with the domain classes. I've noticed that if you have constraints defined which are invalid or whose value is incorrect, ...
The Darwin Delusion - Part 1: Introduction
After much searching and researching the ongoing question of evolution/Darwinism vs. Creationism, some very startling facts came up. As much as atheists and open-minded folks such as Richard Dawkins, and hate-mongers like Christopher Hutchins will be...

