When externalizing grails app configurations for multiple environments I want to ensure values are provided for all the required/expected properties. So I wrote a plugin to help. Validating Expected and Required Properties Simply add something ...
Grails developers may have noticed that since version 2.1, there have been a lot of features added for Maven support. It probably won’t be long before Ivy is phased out, if this article is any ...
The last time that I had to meet customer requirements for creating and rendering charts, I ended up building a complex, data-driven, dynamic wizard style application which was built on top of a large API ...
One of the oft-touted benefits of Grails is that you can automatically generate a user interface for basic database operations such as creating a new entity, updating, deleting, and listing all entities. While this looks ...
For the last few months I’ve been steadily moving more towards VIM as my primary editor for Grails development. Here I’ll share some of the plugins, scripts tips and tricks that I’ve found most useful ...
I took a look at my list of installed FireFox extensions this weekend and I was surprised to see a long list of tools, many of which I almost never use. I like to keep ...