Author Archives: achernyakevich

From Grails 1.4 to Grails 2.0: Strategic Upshift

Posted on June 29, 2011 by achernyakevich

June 27, 2011 Graeme Rocher, the Grails Project Lead announced the team’s decision to change Grails 1.4 to Grails 2.0. The explanation is a long list of new features and a different look & feel that we are going to … Continue reading →

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Groovy 1.8: Upgrade Complete

Posted on May 10, 2011 by achernyakevich

Scand Java team upgraded to Groovy 1.8 once the release was announced on April 27, 2011. Increased productivity and speed, enhanced runtime performance, improved functional programming style and syntax and less errors – these are just some of the advantages … Continue reading →

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Happy New Groovy 1.7.9 Release!

Posted on February 25, 2011 by achernyakevich

The release of Groovy 1.7.9 was announced on March 09, 2011. The Groovy development team made a 1.7 line release upon fixing several small, however, sometimes critical bugs that caused troubles in some cases. We at Scand faced those troubles … Continue reading →

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Updated Grails framework is available

Posted on February 24, 2011 by achernyakevich

We have finished migration of our projects to use an updated Grails version 1.3.7 by SpringSource. Grails is a dynamic Java-and-Groovy-based web application framework allowing us to apply convention-based rapid development and benefit from the usage of the accredited APIs. … Continue reading →

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Open Source Contribution: Groovy

Posted on December 23, 2010 by achernyakevich

Scand’s Groovy experts have contributed to the open source community experience.  We traced a bug and reported it to the community so that it could be fixed. It was a regression bug – a change in the existing code modifying … Continue reading →

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Grails experience

Posted on December 23, 2010 by achernyakevich

Scand possesses extensive knowledge and experience in web application development. We do our utmost to be aware of and use cutting edge and promising technologies, one of them being the Grails framework. We implemented our first application using Grails 0.4.4 … Continue reading →

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Making Use of Agile Methodologies: Scrum Sprints

Posted on December 15, 2010 by achernyakevich

We make use of Agile, Scrum, XP and other methodologies elements that help us provide our customers with transparent software development process, give them an insight into the projects, enable them to understand at what stage the project is at … Continue reading →

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