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by jbarmash 14y ago
In terms of some of the organizations I know that are using it: IEEE, NetFlix uses it for many internal apps, Target, one of the largest hedge funds in NY area, LiquidNet. I think there are less publisized stories about it because it is m
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by jbarmash 14y ago
Agreed. I also chose Grails for my startup 3 years ago, and have been very happy with decision. Allowed us to deliver a huge amount of functionality quickly. And Grails 2.0 has been out for six months, that's been great. 2.1 has some n
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by jbarmash 14y ago
Yeah, the adoption is pretty good, definitely compared to Jython / JRuby. Multiple conferences dedicated primarily to groovy / grails (gr8conf US coming up on Minneapolis on 30-31). I think Grails is driving a lot of adoption, but I also
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by jbarmash 14y ago
Exciting. As a long-time Groovy / Grails user, can't wait to dig in. I think the new static features make more people coming in from static languages more comfortable getting into the language. .
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by jbarmash 14y ago
Love the vim binding!
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by jbarmash 15y ago
> while Groovy for quick scripts to test stuff. I doubt groovy would be listed in job ads just for scripting. Grails has pretty significant adoption, both among startups, and to a larger extend among the enterprises, e.g. Java Shops. Th
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by jbarmash 15y ago
My wife is a physician, so let me chime in. It's not so much a hazing ritual but a very carefully constructed mentorship program. It's intense, and in some cases maybe overly so, but the goal is to immerse them into the environment, and
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by jbarmash 15y ago
New York, NY - EnergyScoreCards.com We are a data platform for energy efficiency industry (think Mint.com for energy of big buildings). Come work with us - we are at an exciting intersection of energy efficiency / statistics, sustainability
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by jbarmash 15y ago
I am interested as well. jean dot barmash at gmail. Also, let me know where you are located geographically.
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by jbarmash 15y ago
I switched to Groovy/Grails a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. Lots of fun to work with, and allows me to reuse my previous knowledge base. In addition to reusing my previous expertise, there are four thing I really like about
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Groovy 1.8 Final Released with lots of new goodies, performance improvements(dzone.com)
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by jbarmash 16y ago
NYC, NY - Sr. Software Engineer (Java, Groovy/Grails) EnergyScoreCards.com - energy efficiency analytics. www.energyscorecards.com
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by jbarmash 16y ago
New York, NY (no remote at this time) EnergyScoreCards.com Looking for great developers. Our stack is Groovy/Grails/Java, but languages matter less than being a great technologist. Looking for both UI and Backend developers. We also have o
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by jbarmash 16y ago
NYC, EnergyScoreCards.com is hiring. We are in the hot energy efficiency / cleantech space, helping measure large buildings measure their energy use. We are looking for: Developers (grails / java, but anybody with sharp skills would be co
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by jbarmash 16y ago
I am one of the guys running it. If somebody volunteers to record, we'd love that; we've been spending all of our bandwidth on curriculum / getting good speakers.
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by jbarmash 16y ago
I listen to a lot of podcasts, here are some of my favorites: Entrepreneur: 1. Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders 2. Venture Voice (hasn't been updated in a while, but Greg Gallant is a very good interviewer, and some interesting ones
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by jbarmash 17y ago
you are right about incentives being misaligned. In Europe, when you buy / sell a home, you get an energy report of how much you'll pay for utilities, so people are starting to take energy costs into account. This is becoming true in the US
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by jbarmash 17y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough - I meant municipal steam heat that comes to you in a pipe as a byproduct of electricity generation. http://www.coned.com/steam/ Steam heating in homes is common, but the energy source is gas or heating oil th
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by jbarmash 17y ago
Basically, your energy use roughly varies with seasons. So you can apply some analysis techniques to tease out how much of your energy is for heating, cooling, hot water, etc. Most of the data you can get reliably is monthly bill data, s
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by jbarmash 17y ago
Great article. I am especially happy to hear it talk about measuring utility bills before and after retrofits, since a lot of improvements in this industry have been measured more on promises of improvement, as opposed on actual data (i.e.