Creating a Mocked RESTful Sandbox Server using Groovy
June 25th, 2015
Create a mocked RESTful web service using Groovy, which allows users to test out the service without changing any data.
Create a mocked RESTful web service using Groovy, which allows users to test out the service without changing any data.
Review some command-line hits for more fine-grained git control
During the first week of June, I had the opportunity to speak and attend Gr8Conf EU in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference was relatively small but had many amazingly talented speakers and attendees. Just check the agenda and you’ll see many of the…
A tutorial on the CLOB data type in Oracle
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A discussion of ETag usefulness in APIs and an example project created from Spring Data RESTs built-in ETag support.
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A compiled list of which Groovy version goes with a version of Grails.
I learned a lot building my first Ratpack application. I hope this post will help you on your way to building your first Ratpack application.
Intelligent microservice metrics with Spring Boot, Dropwizard, and Statsd
if you run a command with at least one argument twice a day, then you should make an alias for it.
A method of integrating bower into Gradle to manage JavaScript and CSS dependencies without maintaining copies in the source tree.
For deploying to Heroku, outlines a method using Gradle to work-around the 15 minute build timeout still leverage the advantages of building from source.
As much as we hate to admit it, from time to time there are benefits to languages that operate outside the JVM. Whether its interfacing with hardware or simply
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This past weekend, I was able to attend and present at the 2015 Nebraska.Code() Conference in Lincoln, along with a few other Object Partners developers. With roughly 500 in attendance from presenters, to attendees, to sponsors, the conference had…
Google Code is shutting down (because everyone uses github anyway) So long and thanks for all the fish. It has been a good ride — thank you for pushing open collaboration forward! Its been a good transition to git. If you haven’t yet, consider…
Easily get GORM max size constraints
I came from a background of making sites with Django and after I starting going head-first into Grails, one of the things I missed was a really good and easy to make an admin section. You know — something that “just works” to do some basic CRUD…
Currently, Travis doesn’t have a way to display a build status badge for individual jobs in a matrix build. You can only get an individual badge which displays “passing” if all the jobs pass or “failed” if one job fails. I’ve created a small open…
Discussing Groovy Closures and why they are useful.