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Last Friday I gave a presentation to the team here at 2Paths on the testing capabilities in Grails 1.1. As you Grails die-hards know, Grails 1.1 introduced the new GrailsUnitTestCase class which is a very useful extension of GroovyTestCase with support for mocking the dynamic properties and methods that Grails injects into various types of classes [...]
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Based on my recent experimenting with CouchDB I have conflicted feelings of whether to get on, or stay off the couch. I am intrigued by the notion of a schema-free document-based database, and how applications could be created to leverage such a technology. I am also reserved about its benefits to my current work environment. [...]
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A work in progress visualization of freedb (RDF version of wikipedia).
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Working as both a Developer and as a ScrumMaster has skewed my perspective a bit to be dev-team centric, so I recently took SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner course to learn more about the scrum software development process through the eyes of a Product Owner. The course was laid out in a novel way – as a [...]
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Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) adds extensions to the .NET framework which provide a domain specific language for querying and transforming collections right within C# (or VB for that matter). It provides syntax similar to other 4GL querying languages such as SQL, HQL or even OQL. Below is a simple test case showing how to do LINQ [...]
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