GPars Quick Hits
Just finished my presentation to the DC Groovy Users Group on GPars collection and closure enhancements. Slides are on slide share for anyone who wants to take a peek. I’ll post up some of the coding...
View ArticleMore Parallel Processing in Jenkins Notes
October must be my month to think about CI testing. Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to do much with it since my last post a year ago, but I did stumble across these rough notes I took while getting a...
View ArticleAuto-create User Domain Object with Spring Security
For those who skip straight to the last page of a book to see how it ends – See Chap 7. Events of the spring-security-core plugin documentation. For those who like a little more detail… I just moved...
View ArticleI am Alanis Morissette
Isn’t it ironic that one of your posts attracts the attention of a grails guru…and it’s because you misspelled his name. (Sorry about that, Burt. I updated the post.) Even better, my blog software then...
View ArticleSpring security: CAS + LDAP
After getting straight LDAP authentication to work with the spring-security-ldap plugin, I moved on to the next requirement which was integrating with CAS. Like many projects before us, we need to do...
View ArticleGrails Plugins Presentation
I presented at the DC GUG meeting a couple of days ago, this time on Grails plugins. I wanted to go beyond the normal “these are the basics of Grails” intro to cover the main points of what you need to...
View ArticleNo Fluff Just Stuff and CANI
I attended another great NFJS conference this weekend. This was the first year where I would say that mobile development was one of the leading topic areas. Surprisingly, there wasn’t a single Grails...
View ArticleGrails 2 Unit Tests – Using Base Classes
I’ve been meaning to write up my experiences with upgrading a 1.x app to grails 2 for two months now. Since I can’t seem to find the time to do a large post, I’ll follow MrHaki’s example and sprinkle...
View ArticleGrails 2 Unit Tests – Undocumented Properties
GrailsUnitTestMixin (and its descendents DomainClassUnitTestMixin, ServiceUnitTestMixin, etc) give your test classes some static and instance variables that aren’t mentioned in the docs yet. You get...
View ArticleNew Grails Book by Burt Beckwith
My new position doesn’t offer me as much opportunity to use Grails as I would like, but jumped at this chance to learn more about it from one of the masters. Programming Grails is early release, but...
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