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by sjd 14y ago
Groovy and Grails are both amazing, been doing development for quite sometime and have tried various languages. Can honestly for a new web based application I would chose Grails over the others.
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by sjd 14y ago
Grails is an amazing technology founded on two very time tested technologies being Spring and Hibernate. The programming language itself is Groovy which in turn is founded on Java For those coming from PHP, Python and Rails the thought of u
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by sjd 15y ago
Checkout grailsjobs.com, Grails is awesome btw!
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by sjd 15y ago
actually it looks suspiciously an aweful lot like chatnearme.com that has been out for awhile :)
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by sjd 15y ago
btw I have a mobile web application at the same url and you can see how many people online in your circle
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by sjd 15y ago
looks a lot like what I did chatnearme.com check it out
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by sjd 15y ago
For large scale web applications most of these frameworks will not work because they don't scale. I know Twitter is an exceptional case but why do you think they are converting their Ruby code to Scala? I personally like Grails which uses G
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by sjd 15y ago
What you can't accomplish something like this with a mobile webapp? You can certainly provide upload capabilities.
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by sjd 15y ago
Hi and thanks for the response. Yes it is for the same site I've mentioned here in the past and can be seen in my submission history. I didn't want to mix it in with the topic so people wouldn't think I was using it to further promote the p
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by sjd 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback and links. Both provide some very good points to think about. You are correct about the time constraint and perhaps I could pay for some of the work and perhaps that is the only way, but then I need to get into findi
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Ask HN: Best way to locate a partner?
7 points by sjd 15y ago|7 comments
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by sjd 15y ago
It's a bit disappointing not to see more mention of Groovy/Grails. It has all the great features you get with Ruby/Rails but built on two solid time tested technologies being Spring and Hibernate. Not to mention the ability to integrate wit
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by sjd 15y ago
The tasks are primarily back-end oriented and focus mainly on areas of scaling. An understanding of Java is needed and it would be nice to know Groovy as well. I'm the sole developer of this site which is not funded so it would be an equity
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Ask HN: Looking for technical partner(s)
1 points by sjd 15y ago|2 comments
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Tell HN: ChatNearMe wins best people mashup at Dreamforce
1 points by sjd 15y ago|0 comments
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by sjd 15y ago
chatnearme.com (mobile webapp same url)
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by sjd 15y ago
Yes it is, there is a maximum radius but the max should encompass most cities
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by sjd 15y ago
Yes but there is still the problem of usage though. Getting people to visit and comeback to any social site is tough these days with the likes of FB and Twitter especially if the ui is ugly like the one I have now atm heh.
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by sjd 15y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, there is so many things like this I would love to add to the site need to make more time somehow :P
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by sjd 15y ago
No, you can post as unregistered and I just saw a post 2 minutes ago. There is still a bit of a delay i.e. it is not yet real-time
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Ask HN: Rate my project/startup (location based chat)
16 points by sjd 15y ago|10 comments