Category Archives: Software Development
Grails Database Migration Gotchas
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
Why You Should Work at Refactr
Oct
18
2011
Where we choose to spend our days developing software can have a big impact on our lives. If we aren’t happy and fulfilled in the work part of our life, those other parts need to be that much better to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, community, MIleMarker, Software Development
Tagged about us, consulting, hiring, Refactr, teams
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A viable alternative to Google Maps: OpenStreetMap
Jun
9
2011
OpenStreetMap is a free, open source mapping platform that has emerged as a viable alternative to Google Maps. We’ve been working on a few side projects involving online maps, and have been impressed with the capabilities of OpenStreetMap. So we … Continue reading
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Refactr loves Thunder and Lightning
Jun
3
2011
Have you ever wondered how far away from you lightning strikes? Well here at Refactr, our team wanted to know the answer. Yeah, we know there is a way to calculate the distance, but who really wants to do that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Products, Software Development
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Testing Closures in Groovy
Dec
10
2010
I use a lot of closures in Groovy. This often makes my code more expressive and readable – and easier to write. But testing what the closure is doing can sometimes be difficult if the closure isn’t something trivial. To … Continue reading
Using Scribe log aggregation in Grails
Nov
24
2010
On my current project, our Grails app is running on multiple tomcat instances, which share session state using Terracotta. This gives us a number of benefits, including redundancy and fairly easy zero-downtime deployments. However, any time I need to watch … Continue reading
A long time in the making, introducing the new Lean-to
Sep
10
2010
We have tried to use project tracking software for our own projects but couldn’t find anything that we liked. They were either way too complex and bloated (VersionOne, Jira, Mingle) or just too ugly and no fun to use (XPlanner, … Continue reading
Posted in Lean-to, Software Development
Tagged bug tracking, project, project management, project tracking, Software Development
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Kirei and Refactr introduce MileMarker
Aug
5
2010
Fresh out of its beta period we are proud to show off our innovation acceleration, idea management, task prioritization system, MileMarker. We’re still working on some walk-through videos and some updates to the public site. Screenshots Release Notes: Added filtering, … Continue reading
Posted in MIleMarker, Products, Software Development
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At Refactr we really like developing products
Jan
22
2010
We are always developing web applications for clients or for ourselves – and sometimes some sort of combination of the two as we are doing with SMBLive and the CloudProfile platform we have been working on much of the year. … Continue reading
Posted in CloudProfile, Lean-to, MIleMarker, Products, Software Development
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Updates to Circuit Breaker Grails Plugin
Jun
11
2009
The changes in this release consist mainly of exposing the internals of each Circuit Breaker to developers, ops, or anyone that might care. At Tuesday night’s GUM meeting, I presented my experiences with AOP in Grails and we discussed the … Continue reading
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