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Category Archives: Software Development
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
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
JRuby Conf Sponsorship
Post by Matt Bjornson
Apr
19
2012
We’re very excited to sponsor JRubyConf this year. We are big believers in fostering and growing the technology community and it’s great to have a conference like this held in Minneapolis. The other reason we are excited about sponsoring is … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, community, Software Development
Tagged JRuby, JRubyConf, JVM, Rails, Ruby
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Switching to Eclipse/STS For Grails Development
Post by Matt Nohr
Apr
11
2012
My preferred tool for doing Grails development is the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), which is built on the free Eclipse IDE that you download with a number of plugins already installed. It is totally free and has a number of … Continue reading
Welcome Matt Nohr!
Post by Matt Bjornson
Mar
22
2012
We’d like to welcome Matt Nohr to the Refactr team! Matt is joining us from Parametric Technology Corporation where he was a Scrum Master doing product development. Matt’s going to be working on a new client product using Grails, actually may be a … Continue reading
The Vital Integration of Design and Development
Post by Matt Bjornson
Mar
6
2012
We’re self-managing, multi-disciplinary teams. We’re designers and developers working together to deliver software. This isn’t the way all companies approach software development. In large companies, interface and interaction design is often in a completely separate organization, marketing – or maybe … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business, Design, Software Development
Tagged agile design, Design, Software Development
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Git: Merging Two Repositories
Post by Josh Reed
Mar
5
2012
I recently needed to merge two separate git repositories into a single repository while preserving the history of all files. As with most things, there’s more than one way to solve a problem. In this case, I considered two approaches: … Continue reading
Welcome Luke!
Post by Matt Bjornson
Feb
16
2012
We are excited to have Luke join Refactr! Luke will be working with our team on an innovative client product development effort using Ruby on Rails! Luke has spent the last five years consulting with companies like Thomson Reuters, Merrill … Continue reading
Grails Database Migration Gotchas
Post by Josh Reed
Jan
25
2012
Before we dive into gotchas, let me start by saying that the Grails Database Migration plugin is great. It’s usually the second plugin I install on any new project, right after the Spring Security Core plugin. You’ll likely never run … Continue reading
