NoSQL East & semweb meetup in DC

Emil will represent Neo4j at two upcoming event: Emil and Tim Berners-Lee -- I'm sorry Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web -- will speak at the semantic web meetup in association with ISWC in Washington DC on Oct 27 2009.

After that, we're heading straight to nosql east where our commercial backer Neo Technology will sponsor the conference and Emil will give a Neo4j talk.

If you're attending either one or are just in the area, please ping us so we can grab a beer.

Initial release of Neo4j Grails plugin

As announced by Stefan Armbruster on the Neo4j and Grails mailing lists, the initial 0.1 version of the Neo4j Grails plugin has been released by him. Read the full announcement in this blog post. Grails is a web application framwork based on the Groovy langauge. At the moment the plugin has support for the basic CRUD operations and also exposes the underlying node of each domain object through a property.

Different people have requested such a plugin previously, so it's exiting news that the plugin now exists.

Stefan has also provided example code for how to use the plugin. Basic domain classes may look like this:

class Author { 
    String name
    Date dob
    static hasMany = [ books: Book ]
}

class Book {
    String title
    static belongsTo = [ author:Author ]
}

After adding a little data to the domain the node space will look like this (click for bigger version):

Further information is found on the Neo4j wiki Grails page.

Neo4j at JAOO 2009 Oct 4 - 8

Emil from the Neo4j crew is right now making the streets of Aarhus, Denmark, unsafe for RDBMS fans. Why? Because Oct 4th is kicking off the week of JAOO 2009!

Emil will give an introductory Neo4j talk in the morning slot of the first day. If you're attending and want a free beer or just discuss some #nosql or graph database goodness, please stop by and say hi!