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I must apologise (that’s if anyone did notice) for not really keeping up with this blog in the recent several weeks. I certainly plan to continue the blog; it did seem such a good idea at the beginning, but I’m afraid that I have had a lot of distractions recently.
Version control
In fact I have completed the Griffon apps that I started to describe – thanks to pressure from the users – so you’ll have to treat the new few entries as a sort of action replay. However I did find out a couple of weeks ago that I had missed something in one of the Griffon release notes which meant that I could do a bit of recoding. And so I thought that I’d actually set up some VCS since we now have an “initial release” to save.
Because I’m also writing a Grails app I wanted a VCS to handle all the projects but I was a bit disappointed in that some do seem a little inflexible. Grails is the greater issue, but perhaps that’s another story. In the end I decided on Mercurial with TortoiseHg as a quite nice graphical client. (I should have mentioned that at the moment the work is WINDOWS XP-based.)
Back to the Griffon
I suppose that having actually finished the apps it should make writing about them a little easier, well I certainly hope so! The preliminary stuff was fairly general so next time we’ll just start with the Model and take it from there; it actually worked out rather straightforward in the end so I hope that I can get through the development in a few more posts.
And then I have a few more ideas for Griffon apps, the next time will be using SQL but we’ll have to see how well that goes. This is in addition to our main Grails project, of course, although I can see some scope for a Griffon app that will provide some desktop functions related to the main project.
