Technology under the hood
Building GRAILS app on Debian using Maven GRAILS Plugin
We’re now using GRAILS in one of our Maven-ized projects, and have it building using the Maven GRAILS plugin. We needed to roll this integration out to Husdon, our CI server which is running on a Debian box. We ran into a couple of snags.
We had downloaded and installed the debian package grails_1.0.4-1_all.deb [...]
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LiquiBase-ifying your Grails Application
At 2Paths we’ve got some pretty good processes in place: we practice agile software development and scrum, have all our projects set up in Continuous Integration. We try to do test-driven development where at all possible. One area that has slipped through the cracks though is database change management. What company hasn’t run into the [...]
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Using Spring themes to override resource bundle messages
We use Spring quite a bit. In one project we use Spring MVC (I won’t get into a rant about whether that’s a good thing or not) and rightly or wrongly we use Spring themes within our UI. Yes I know JSP based UIs are so last century but sometimes if the shoe fits …
One [...]
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Hudson - too easy
Continuous integration is a lovely thing. Automated testing is also lovely as you can see where things work or not almost instantly in different environments and scenarios.
Over the years I have used a few CI servers and tools - most notably, CruiseControl (Java and .NET) and Continuum (from the Maven crew). These systems, whilst useful, [...]
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No Fluff Just Stuff, April 2008
With forecasts of April snow, our 2Paths contingent of two headed off at the crack of dawn one Friday for Bellevue, WA to attend the No Fluff Just Stuff - Pacific Northwest Software Symposium (NFJS). Having only spent 10 minutes at the border (whew!), we arrived early enough in the Seattle area to fit [...]
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Seriously, No BullFluff
Last week’s No Fluff Just Stuff symposium was undoubtedly the best Java event I’ve attended thus far, and the icing on the cake was Brian Sletten’s talk on “Beyond Cute-sy Mashups”. It was worth showing up for that alone. It’s not very often that it happens, but I’m stoked.
Below is my newly updated ‘Bleeding Edge [...]
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No Fluff Just Stuff
The day started curiously as I was waiting for the 57, where I came across a quaint wannabe bus driver from Somalia. Naturally, I asked him why he had opted for life over here in Canada. “Here the supermarkets don’t sell bullets side by side with the vegetables”, was his honest reply. I never did [...]
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Sweet Online Reference Tool
Got API
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Unit Test Your Web Security
Web-based business applications require stringent security measures. Within a secure website, a user must be authenticated by the system and for each different user role a predetermined set of authorization rights must be imposed. This isn’t anything new, and luckily, there exists an open source Java security framework, known as Acegi, which makes the job [...]
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Automating Asynchronous Jobs with Java 5 and Spring
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