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The Creatives on Agile and QA teams
January 10th, 2014
Agile and QA teams both have their compliment of Creatives who don’t fit the mold yet provide tremendous value to the team through the very traits that set them apart.
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Alternative Test Data Strategies for Automation
January 7th, 2014
The test data you have available creates a major design constraint for your automated tests, impacting both test coverage and validity. You can address this challenge in several ways.
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Grails Config Values Per Tomcat Host
December 11th, 2013
An example of using JNDI to provide a Grails application config values per Tomcat Host.
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The Joy of Oracle XML type
November 26th, 2013
The Oracle XML type functions (e.g. updateXML, EXTRACT) can be applied to xml formatted data in any column type by using the XMLType() conversion function.
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Resolving browser-specific issues using the Grails Resources plugin
November 21st, 2013
Internet Explorer caps the number of CSS rules in a file, while Chrome throws a 404 on missing source maps. Customizing the Grails Resources plugin can help.
Igor Shults
JVM
Guicing up Dropwizard
November 19th, 2013
Implement dependency injection in Dropwizard with Google Guice.
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Parallel Grails Functional Tests with Geb and Gradle
November 14th, 2013
Speed up your Grails functional tests by running them in parallel with Gradle
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Set up a pseudo test suite in Grails while doing a major upgrade
November 12th, 2013
Describes a technique for setting up a temporary test suite while upgrading a Grails application.
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And the iPad Mini Retina goes to....
November 8th, 2013
We had a great time at Mobcon, as well as the time leading up to it! We had a lot of congenial conversations, got to show off some of our many accomplishments within our mobile practice, and in general had a fun time mingling with the local business…
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Testing GWT with GwtMockito
November 7th, 2013
How to write tests for GWT using GwtMockito. GwtMockito makes it possible for you to write Mockito unit tests for your GWT code; these tests execute a lot faster than GWTTestCase or PowerMockito tests, making your build times more scalable.
Neil Buesing
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Building Avatar Applications with Gradle
November 5th, 2013
Project Avatar is a Web Framework for Java EE 7 and JDK 8 that runs under Glassfish. This post discusses how to build Avatar applications with Gradle.
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Testing Grails With a Travis Build Matrix
October 29th, 2013
An example Grails build configuration for creating a Travis build matrix
Brandon Fish
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A Standalone Service Tier with Spring
October 24th, 2013
Building a Standalone Service Tier with Spring Integration and RabbitMQ
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Using the Groovy Console as a Java Production Support Tool
October 22nd, 2013
As an advanced debugging technique, the Groovy Console is a great tool for interactively working with Java or Groovy objects serialized from running code.
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What I wish I knew about Grails before my first Grails Project
October 15th, 2013
Some thoughts and ideas on how I would go about my first Grails project, if I had the chance to start it over.
Neil Buesing
JavaScript
Presentation: Front End Tools for Modern Web Apps
October 10th, 2013
Presentation Abstract: Application development on the web has drastically evolved over the last 15 years. Today web applications are often expected to act like natives apps, are JavaScript heavy, and need to work across mobile, tablet and desktop…
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Reverse-Engineer Old Databases With Grails
October 10th, 2013
Create Grails domain classes from your legacy database tables.
Eric Foster-Johnson
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Building Web Apps in Ratpack
October 9th, 2013
How to build, package, and deploy applications with Ratpack
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Extending the jQuery prototype to access Bootstrap components
October 2nd, 2013
Easily accessing the HTML and objects of Bootstrap components by extending the jQuery prototype.
Igor Shults
JVM
Rollback Multiple Datasources in Grails Integration Tests
September 24th, 2013
Simple setup for Grails integration tests to rollback from multiple databases when using the Datasources plugin or 2.3 built-in support.
Jeff Sheets
JVM
The Benefits of Using assertThat over other Assert Methods in Unit Tests
September 18th, 2013
The released of JUnit 4.4 added a new method assertThat which is a much improved way to write assertions vs the old assert methods.
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Type Safe Page Objects with Geb
September 12th, 2013
How to get the benefits of type-safe page objects with the Geb functional testing framework
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Does anyone really know what time it is? Best Practices for handling time and intervals.
August 27th, 2013
Presents a new approach for date and time processing that solves almost all Daylight Savings Time issues as well as decreasing the size of a JSON stream.
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Triggering a Youtube Video from Clicking a Button Image and Replacing when Ended
August 22nd, 2013
This post will discuss how to solve the problem of playing a Youtube video from a press from an initial starting image, and then replacing the image when the video has ended playing. Over the last two years on a few different web projects, I have had…
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