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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Nicerides to the Food Trucks
Post by Dane Messall
May
23
2012
With the nice weather here and the food trucks out in full force Refactr is once again hitting the streets to get a taste of the local food truck scene. Last year we only got out for a handful of … Continue reading
Grails JMX Configuration Using Annotations
Post by Matt Nohr
May
21
2012
I have a grails application that uses the JMX plugin to expose MBeans. The good part is that it automatically exposes some built in MBeans like hibernate and log4j. The bad part is that it exposes too much information for … Continue reading
iPad Wedding DJ
Post by Steve Vlaminck
May
11
2012
iPad Wedding DJ I’m a newlywed, and my one responsibility for the wedding (short of showing up on time in my suit) was to handle the music at the reception. Which is good, because that’s really the only thing that … Continue reading
Grails Tips: Deployment Tricks
Post by Josh Reed
May
10
2012
I’m often working with several versions of a project deployed across a variety of deployment environments. Grails makes it easy to manage all of the configuration for these environments, and also allows you to switch the environment at deployment time … Continue reading
Grails In-Memory Cache using Google’s Guava Library
Post by Matt Nohr
May
9
2012
In a Grails application, there are a couple of cases where you may want to consider storing data in a in-memory cache. For example: If it is expensive to read/create the data (reading across the network) If the data will … Continue reading
Music in the Office
Post by Dane Messall
May
8
2012
If you work in an office the likelihood that you spend a major chunk of your day plugged into music is pretty high. I know it is for me and it’s also a safe assumption to make about my coworkers. … Continue reading
Internet Explorer Compatibility Testing
Post by Luke Bredeson
May
7
2012
Microsoft seems to catch a lot of flack these days for the overhead required to maintain compatibility with different versions of Internet Explorer. To help mitigate this, they’ve made some browser testing virtual machines freely available here, for IE 6, … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
Tagged browser testing, internet explorer compatibility, VirtualBox
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Using MongoMapper to run MapReduce jobs
Post by Luke Bredeson
May
3
2012
Background When using relational databases, we sometimes take for granted certain operations that appear to be missing in “NoSQL” databases like MongoDB, such as the ability to group data and run aggregate functions in SQL, like sum, max, etc. These … Continue reading
