Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Friday, June 24, 2011

NLS_LANG env variable

facing the following 'problem' while migrating data from postgresql db to Oracle on a French installation - the data is exported in UTF8 while Oracle expects win1252 -> in order to import the data correctly - env variable NLS_LANG is used - (set NLS_LANG=FRENCH_FRANCE.UTF8)

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Groovy & Grails

YAJWF

books:
Apress: A Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd edition
Apress: Groovy and Grails Recipes
Manning: Grails in Action

some notes while reading:

. servletContext - objects placed within it will not be garbage-collected unless the
application explicitly removes them; access to the servletContext object is not synchronized
. return statements are optional in Groovy