Note that this did not work for me until I included the /user/ on the end of the URL. Just follow his directions to the letter. Finding the Calendar ID is a little tricky, but if you select the pulldown menu from each calendar and pick settings from that, you will find the ID buried low down on the page.

Precipitate is open source, works beautifully and fast so far, and has been around for awhile. Install it as a pref pane, let it in, and in a few minutes it adds your Google docs to your local Spotlight index so when you search your Mac it finds them.

I LOVE this.

Just bought myself a copy after it worked flawlessly. Great software is just great. Being able to find a good post about it, pull it down, try it out for free, and then pay for it in a few seconds is so much better than the old days…

So I went to Tekserve, and the story ends well. Not only did they charge just $140 for the labor, but they were pretty darn fast too, about a day to get it done. Despite being warned that the part might not work since they hadn’t selected it, the screen has been crisp and beautiful ever since. I did have to wait about 40 minutes to get helped at 9:30 am on a weekday, but maybe that was just a slow morning. Clearly, the folks are doing a great service to the community and I wanted to point it out.

Poking around, some people suggested this indicated a need to reset SMC. Since I have a removable battery, here are the steps:

1. Shut down.
2. Unplug power adapter.
3. Remove battery.
4. Press and hold power button for 5 seconds.
5. Reconnect everything and start up.

It’s been fine since. Don’t like it, but at least it’s working.

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: org.openid4java.consumer.ConsumerManager.authenticate() is applicable for argument types: (org.openid4java.discovery.DiscoveryInformation, org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.util.StreamCharBuffer) values: [OpenID2

Change line 49 of OpenidController to cast the value to a String:

String url = getReturnToUrl(redirectParams)
def authReq = consumerManager.authenticate(discovered, url)

Bob shamed me into posting this for the good of humankind. I will try to find out if this is really an issue and should be submitted to the plugin author.

Thank you, Bob.

It’s good to get back in touch with what got me into this business in the first place. This time the recipe includes these ingredients:

• Groovy
• Grails
• jQuery
• Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk, RDS and S3
• JetBrains IDEA 10

Groovy just continues to satisfy me as a language more than any other these days. And more than any other in a long time. It’s the best set of compromises and the most productive I’ve used ever. I recently put Grails to the test on a short-term tactical project where I needed to just Get It Done and despite not having gone deep with it yet I found it to be quick to learn and rarely disappointing. In so many places, those ahead of me have made good choices, addressed painful lessons learned elsewhere with smart little innovations.

I’ve appreciated jQuery over the years but this time around it took on a new meaning as I began to integrate front and back in new, easier ways. Because Grails makes it so easy to expose a RESTful URL with a few lines of meaningful code that render their result as JSON, calling from client-side JavaScript is clean on both ends. I quickly stopped thinking hard about in-page interactions for updated data from the server and just made the call. The similarities between JavaScript and Groovy are strong enough that there are pros and cons to mixing them, but overall they integrate easily and effectively. jQuery’s AJAX calls with Closures for callbacks make it easy to handle async responses and then manipulate the DOM to update page elements on demand. And through it all, IDEA makes it easy to jump back and forth, editing intelligently in each.

I included IDEA in my list because at this point it feels like an integral part of the languages themselves. Just to point out one little amazing function in the latest in a great line of releases, the latest version knows Grails so well that if you define a custom TagLib you will instantly get auto-completion of any attributes that TagLib supports. What’s really impressive about this is that you don’t actually declare the attributes anywhere in your method signature since Grails TagLibs are just Closures. What this means is they are examining your code and modeling your use of references to the ‘attrs’ map which is passed into the Closure for the TagLib, deriving correctly what you intended. This kind of thing makes coding more enjoyable, and more productive. I get inspired by their quality and want to make my own.

Finally, Amazon continues to impress me with their AWS offerings. The new Beanstalk is an irresistibly simple way to deploy a WAR with full redundancy and auto-scaling in the app, the database, a load balancer, monitoring (with neat little graphs in real-time), alerts…these folks are on it.

So put it all together and it makes me want to code again more than anything in a long time. Seemed worth a quick post.

http://www.interrupt19.com/2009/05/21/speed-up-your-mac-eliminate-background-processes/

And ended up getting rid of a lot.

I did do a full drive image with Super Duper! first, though, just to be safe ;-)