Getting "No server JVM" exception while using STS's Eclipse-Grails plugin

If you are using STS's Grails Eclipse plugin and receive an exception like:

Error: No 'server' JVM at ...

this is mainly because of Eclipse instance's "Installed JREs" setting is pointing a JRE not a JDK. There two possible solutions for this error:

• Select a JDK directory for "Installed JREs" setting
• Copy "/jre/bin/server" directory from a JDK installation to "/jre/bin" directory of a JRE installation
  

New Year presents to Google employees

I read an article in NYTimes mentioning about Google's tradition of giving new year presents to its employees. 2007: an Android phone, 2008: $1000 in cash net of taxes, 2009: Nexus One

I think I am going to start worshiping Google soon :)

AR in Windows Mobile 7

In my previous blogs, I mentioned about Microsoft's movements in AR domain. A few days ago in a meeting I had a small talk with a manager from Microsoft Turkey, and he mentioned that in Windows Mobile 7 we will see bundled AR applications (he didnt give much information but my guess is the AR application(s) will probably integrated with Bing).

Why Google is so successfull?

I think the answer can be found easily in the following sentence:

"Over the past three years a team at Google has studied how problems such as recognizing an object in an image or learning to make an optimal decision based on example data can be made amenable to solution by quantum algorithms"

Nexus One

All the world  is talking about Nexus One these days (ok ok, I know I am a little bit exaggerating); about its photos, specs, Google's motivation behind it -let me remind you 700 MHz spectrum auction- etc but for me the funniest thing about it is its name.

As SF fans already recognized, the name "Nexus" is used in  Philip K. Dick's wonderful novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and the related movie "Blade Runner" for the model of replicants produced by Tyrell Corp (which somehow reminds me of Google). The models range from Nexus-1 to Nexus-6, so I wonder what will be the Google's Nexus Two?

The Year 2010 Is The Android's Year?

I just published a post about the Android predictions in 2010 and Android platform's effects on mobile operators at http://www.yazarbozar.com/2009/12/15/2010-androidin-yili-olacak-mi/. The post is in Turkish, but I will translate it in English and post here soon.