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This information is out of date - please see http://grails.org/plugin/p6spy for the current documentation. I wanted to have a go at creating a Grails plugin so I thought I'd write one to make it easy to add P6Spy to your Grails application. The experience was very good. The structure and distribution mechanism is excellent and the Grails guys have done a great job. Here's the result: grails-p6spy-0.1.zip P6Spy lets you monitor the JDBC queries by proxying your database driver. In addition to logging the prepared statements, it also logs the sql with parameters in place so you can copy and paste the exact sql into your favourite database client to test the results. This Grails plugin makes it easy to utilize P6Spy in your Grails applications. Introduction This plugin contains 2 files - the p6spy jar and spy.properties. After installing the plugin in your Grails application, you can find them in: <project directory>/plugins/p6spy-0.1/grails-app/conf/spy.properties ...

If you need to do anything on Linux, make sure you check out HowToForge - this site has some great walk throughs showing how to set up different distributions in different ways. The guys here really know their stuff and have created some fantastic documentation here. They've got guides for installing the major distros with easy to follow instructions – copy and paste command lines - quality stuff. Good work guys, it's great to see such quality available.

Since moving to Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop I've had a couple of problems (hibernate/suspend, battery life, wireless) but just recently I did a system update which contained a kernel update. Its now running 2.6.20-16-generic and there seems to be a significant difference in hibernate to disk. Before it was very hit and miss - sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Now it seems much more reliable - hibernate and resume although it seems to take a while it looks like it works. There is a strange battery problem though. When I'm running on battery, it is only a couple of minutes before the system starts warning me that I only have minutes left. The battery light on the laptop flashes rapidly and the battery meter in Gnome shows empty. However, if I just carry on working I can still get half and hour or more out of it. Even stranger is that when I shutdown or hibernate while in this condition, the laptop will not boot again until it is plugged in to the power. I think it genuin...