Misc
No surprise
Google homepage has a major new update
I’m a user of Google’s personal home page, and it just went through a big update. The tabs on the top are now on the left and even nicer is that gmail is now integrated in, so you no longer have to go to gmail to open mail and reply to them.
Very nice.
FiBiRi.com running on Grails
I’ve been working on FiBiRi.com on and off for about two months and I finally got it live. It is still kind of in alpha stage, but the functionality is largely there. This is my first serious application written using Grails, and I must say I’m hooked.
Of course I’ve dabbled a bit here and [...]
Please trap your errors!
It just plain looks really, really bad when you have a public facing site and you don’t trap errors. Here is from Staples.com today (1pm PST):
Will document databases make an impact?
There has been a lot of buzz about Amazon’s SimpleDB and other related projects like CouchDB, Google’s Datastore and Thrudb. Personally I think they will all find a niche in modern web applications, but what I find amusing are the nay-sayers that talk about the faults and even saying they aren’t even databases.
Come on, not [...]