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Groovy and Grails are both amazing, been doing development for quite sometime and have tried various languages. Can honestly for a new web based application I would chose Grails ov…

Grails is an amazing technology founded on two very time tested technologies being Spring and Hibernate. The programming language itself is Groovy which in turn is founded on Java …

Checkout grailsjobs.com, Grails is awesome btw!

actually it looks suspiciously an aweful lot like chatnearme.com that has been out for awhile :)

btw I have a mobile web application at the same url and you can see how many people online in your circle

looks a lot like what I did chatnearme.com check it out

For large scale web applications most of these frameworks will not work because they don't scale. I know Twitter is an exceptional case but why do you think they are converting the…

What you can't accomplish something like this with a mobile webapp? You can certainly provide upload capabilities.

Hi and thanks for the response. Yes it is for the same site I've mentioned here in the past and can be seen in my submission history. I didn't want to mix it in with the topic so p…

Thanks for the feedback and links. Both provide some very good points to think about. You are correct about the time constraint and perhaps I could pay for some of the work and per…

This is probably been asked a 100+ times before but it is something I would like to know. I work full-time in a fairly demanding development position but also have a side project w…

It's a bit disappointing not to see more mention of Groovy/Grails. It has all the great features you get with Ruby/Rails but built on two solid time tested technologies being Sprin…

The tasks are primarily back-end oriented and focus mainly on areas of scaling. An understanding of Java is needed and it would be nice to know Groovy as well. I'm the sole develop…

I'm looking for a technical partner in helping to add some additional complex features to a site. Are there any recommended resources for doing this already? Thanks

Thanks everyone and thanks for the great feedback. There was a temporary problem with someone trying to ruin the fun for everyone but it was soon rectified.

chatnearme.com (mobile webapp same url)

Yes it is, there is a maximum radius but the max should encompass most cities

Yes but there is still the problem of usage though. Getting people to visit and comeback to any social site is tough these days with the likes of FB and Twitter especially if the u…

Thanks for the recommendation, there is so many things like this I would love to add to the site need to make more time somehow :P

No, you can post as unregistered and I just saw a post 2 minutes ago. There is still a bit of a delay i.e. it is not yet real-time

I started a side project that I would like to have some feedback on? ATM it is just myself developing it but would love to get more help. The site is chatnearme.com and there is al…