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Category Archives: Software Development
More Grails Filter Tricks: JSONify Controller Actions
Post by Josh Reed
Oct
16
2012
Building on the previous post, we can use the same filter tricks to clean up some other controller smells. When building REST APIs, it’s a common requirement to output your data in JSON and/or XML. This is usually accomplished using … Continue reading
iOS tips: @synchronized
Post by Steve Vlaminck
Oct
12
2012
If you’re just getting started with threading in Objective-C, it won’t be long before you’ll need to make some thread-safe modifications to objects. One of the many useful tools that Objective-C gives us is the @synchronized directive. From the documentation: … Continue reading
Grails Filter Tricks: Ajaxify Controller Actions
Post by Josh Reed
Oct
5
2012
A common requirement in the last couple of projects I worked on was the ability to create and edit domain classes via modal dialogs instead of Grail’s standard scaffolded pages. Originally I started down the path of embedding hidden forms … Continue reading
iOS tips: Custom Fonts
Post by Steve Vlaminck
Sep
19
2012
My good friend google told me that using a custom font in iOS is “easy”. And for the most part it is, but I got tripped up in a few places. I happen to have Apples Keychain example code lying around … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Software Development
Tagged fonts, iOS, iPad, iPhone, objective-c, Xcode
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Grails Tip: Deploy to the Cloud with AppFog
Post by Matt Nohr
Aug
28
2012
AppFog (appfog.com, @appfog) is a relatively new cloud platform that lets you deploy your applications to one of a number of different cloud providers like HP Openstack, Rackspace, and Amazon Web Services. It supports a number of languages and databases, … Continue reading
Reserved Words as Grails Domain Objects
Post by Matt Nohr
Aug
14
2012
I recently ran into a SQL exception creating a simple domain class called “Group” that looked like this: class Group { static constratints = {} } When I ran my application I got this not-exactly-helpful error: | Compiling 1 source … Continue reading
GR8Conf Overview
Post by Matt Nohr
Aug
3
2012
This week was the United States GR8Conf, and we were lucky enough to have it right here in Minneapolis. GR8Conf is a conference focusing on Groovy and Grails and is held in the US, Europe, and Australia. Refactr was one … Continue reading
Endangered Species: Corporate IT
Post by Matt Bjornson
Jul
26
2012
Dear Corporate America, You deserve better. Your Corporate IT Department sucks. Sadly, you know this all too well. They claim they are ‘Agile’, but require six to twelve months to release a new web app. Corporate ‘standards’ that stifle innovation … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business, Software Development
Tagged Agile Processes, Corporate America
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Understanding Grails Aliases
Post by Matt Nohr
Jun
22
2012
In Grails 2.1 (RC2 available at time of writing), Grails introduced a new “alias” command. Like the rest of Grails, there is good high-level documentation for this command. However, here are a few more details. Quick Overview You can use … Continue reading
Partial Mocks with Spock on Groovy/Grails
Post by Matt Nohr
Jun
15
2012
The Spock testing framework currently does not support partial mocks. It is easy to mock out a class, but not individual methods in a class. In almost all cases, this makes sense to me. If you really only want to … Continue reading
