Ritesh on May 25th, 2012Scaling Grails – a checklist for tuning your grails application
I have been using Grails for almost a year now and have fallen in love with it. If you are looking for a good rapid application development framework, and are comfortable with Java, then Grails is definitely something you should check out. Given that it has the patronage of the Spring community (now VMWare) , [...]
Ritesh on Jul 10th, 2011Panacea – Augmented Reality Contacts Management and Location Service
Panacea was the first android application that I helped envision and build. The obnoxious sounding name stems from the fact that we were trying to solve a lot of problems using the application. The team comprised of Navneet, Manohar and Nikhil and I. Here is what the application does. “Panace is an Augmented Reality application [...]
Ritesh on Jan 30th, 2011Continuous Deployment : My first experience
After following a lot of discussions around the devops role, I was eager to put my new found knowledge to use. After i attended a talk by Jez Humble about his new book Continuous Delivery, I was fascinated by the concept of a fully automated deployment script for applications. I am still yet to get [...]
Ritesh on Dec 19th, 2009Bookmarklets are as bad as software on a CD
Bookmarklets are funny pieces of software. Even though its primarily used in the web browser, mainly to perform small nifty tasks, its one resource that you have no control over after its deployed. Unlike Mozilla addon’s that prompt for an update, general websites which update when refreshed, bookmarklets are almost as archaic as delivering software [...]
Ritesh on May 26th, 2009Design Patterns Quick Reference
I am back to designing some software and want to use all my knowledge of Object Orientation and patterns to tackle common problems with design. I found this great reference for the most commonly used design patterns that I must share. It lists all of the core design patterns, all 23 of them, listed in [...]
