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January 24th, 2012
Neo4j is a high-performance, NOSQL graph database with all the features of a mature and robust database. In Neo4j data gets stored in nodes connected to each other by relationship entities that carry its own properties. These relationships are very important in graphs and helps to traverse the graph and make decisions. This blog discusses the two ways to persist a relationship between nodes and also the scenario's which suits their respective usage. Spring-data-neo4j by springsource gives us the flexibility of using the spring programming model when working with neo4j database. The code examples in this blog will be using spring-data-neo4j.
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August 28th, 2010
In web applications we have functionalities like auto suggestions , rating objects, adding to favourites etc which repeat themselves in an application and across applications. So it demands to think about implementing a generic way of rating and adding to user favourites etc and follow DRY principle. Recently in one of my Grails projects we implemented these functionalities in a generic way so that they are reusable and easy to use. Here in this blog, specifically lets look at how we can implement generic auto suggest functionality in Grails. This idea can be extended for other functionalities as well.
Jquery already provides auto suggest functionality. The question here is making functionality generic so that next time we have to use that its a breeze to use. Lets create a tag which can add the necessary jquery code for a text field to have auto suggest capability. Read more »
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May 1st, 2010
For few years now GIDS , Banglore has been a huge gathering for IT professionals in India where many enthusiastic presenters from across the globe present and talk about the latest and greatest in the world of Technology. This year it is even better with some great sessions on Web 2.0, RIA, Java/J2EE from some super individuals. Xebia India also participated in this year's event. Let me share some new ideas that were show cased.
The conference
To explain briefly what GIDS offers, there are sessions on .NET, Web 2.0, Java from April 20-23. There were some well known speakers like Marty Hall, Venkat Subramaniam, Khurram Khan, Matthew McCullough etc. As usual there were huge number of attendees from across India and especially from Banglore. The sessions were on latest hot topics like Cloud computing, Rich internet applications using Ajax, building iPhone applications, monetizing your applications by using PayPal, effective java, java and groovy generics and so on.
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March 6th, 2010
In my previous post I talked about how we can connect to Facebook from our application and get the user deatils. In this post we will discuss how we can authenticate the user based on his facebook user details. We will use acegi plugin of grails to allow uses our of web application to be authenticated by their facebook credentials . We dont need to aunthenticate them into our application like normal way. Let us see how that can be done!
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March 6th, 2010
Recently we integrated the Facebook connect plugin in our Grails project. In this post we will see how to connect to facebook from our application. So that we can allow facebook users to use our Application.First step would be to get the facebook connect button on to our home page. The code for this is below.
Getting the facebook connect button on our home page and its functionality
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