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Answer instructions: Write your answer and then at the end of the answer add your signature by the insert signature button, which is at the rightmost button at the top. End result should look like this: — Antti Knutas 2012/10/16 08:39

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Q: What are user stories?
A: Wikipedia: “In software development and product management, a user story is one or more sentences in the everyday or business language of the end user or user of a system that captures what a user does or needs to do as part of his or her job function.” Or in other words, it is very much like a use case, except it reads more like fiction than technical documentation. — Antti Knutas 2012/10/16 09:20

Q: Can I get a persistant database for Grails that can also be edited with a visual editor?
A: Yes, you can install for example MySQL on the development virtual machine and use it with Grails. For installation, type

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

on the command line. Then see the Grails guide around page twenty for instructions for using in Grails. — Antti Knutas 2012/10/16 09:18

Yes, you can use embedded h2browser. This can be activated by opening http://localhost:8080/workforecast/dbconsole/login.jsp (change the name of the application to correspond yours) and entering the connection url to the JDBC url and entering connect. There you should be able to see your persistent database tables on the left hand side menu. Click to table you want to see (it will create select query to the sql statement textbox) click Run to run it. You can then use the Edit button that is located below table contents. See the picture below.

Q: My VM doesn't start and makes a permission error. What should I do?
A: Your VM has insufficient permissions to run after extraction from the ZIP file. Right-click the extracted directory, go to properties, then the security tab and grant the full control permission to authenticated users. — Antti Knutas 2012/10/16 09:25