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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.

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Getting smarter with git

June 23rd, 2015

Review some command-line hits for more fine-grained git control

Mike Hostetler
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Gr8Conf Europe 2015 Recap

June 17th, 2015

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…

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Conquering With CLOBs

June 16th, 2015

A tutorial on the CLOB data type in Oracle

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JavaScript

WebSockets in Grails 3.0

June 10th, 2015

WebSockets are a long-lived, interactive, two-way channel between a client browser and end server that allows ongoing communication without polling.

Mike Plummer
JVM

Waiting for a Redirect Chain to Settle using Selenium WebDriver

June 4th, 2015

Some interactions with the browser can be tricky. This post describes a way to wait for the document to settle before continuing.

Patrick Double
JVM

ETags and Spring Data REST

June 2nd, 2015

A discussion of ETag usefulness in APIs and an example project created from Spring Data RESTs built-in ETag support.

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JVM

Grails, PostgreSQL 9.4 and JSONB

May 26th, 2015

On a recent grails project using postgreSQL 9.4 that took advantage of the jsonb datatype, we ran into an issue mapping data back and forth to our domain

Object Partners
JavaScript

A server-side guy interacts with React

May 21st, 2015

A tour of how ReactJS works with plenty of examples.

Mike Hostetler
Devops

Dependable Microservices via Lattice

May 19th, 2015

An introduction to Cloud Foundrys Lattice and tutorial using a Grails 3 application.

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JVM

List of Groovy versions for each version of Grails

May 14th, 2015

A compiled list of which Groovy version goes with a version of Grails.

Igor Shults
JVM

My First Ratpack App: What I Learned

May 12th, 2015

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.

Brendon Anderson
JVM

Intelligent microservice metrics with Spring Boot and Statsd

May 7th, 2015

Intelligent microservice metrics with Spring Boot, Dropwizard, and Statsd

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Make Shell Aliases Easy

May 5th, 2015

if you run a command with at least one argument twice a day, then you should make an alias for it.

Mike Hostetler
JavaScript

Using Gradle and Bower to Manage JS/CSS Dependencies

April 29th, 2015

A method of integrating bower into Gradle to manage JavaScript and CSS dependencies without maintaining copies in the source tree.

Patrick Double
JVM

Deploying Grails 3 Applications (and other fat jars) to Heroku

April 23rd, 2015

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.

Patrick Double
JVM

Interfacing Groovy (and Java) with Native Libraries

April 21st, 2015

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

Mike Plummer
Mobile

Using Android Product Flavors to build Full and Demo Version of the app.

March 31st, 2015

ProductFlavor is a very powerful feature available in the Android gradle plugin that allows us to manage different “flavors” of an application. This is useful when you want the same application but with different features per flavor (e.g. Full…

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JavaScript

Nebraska.Code() Conf Recap: Functional style!

March 26th, 2015

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…

Jeff Sheets
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Goodbye Google Code

March 24th, 2015

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…

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JVM

Easily get GORM max size constraints

March 11th, 2015

Easily get GORM max size constraints

Igor Shults
JVM

Another Method for Admin screens with Grails

March 6th, 2015

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…

Mike Hostetler
JVM

Customize your Grails test reports

March 3rd, 2015

Customize your Grails test reports

Igor Shults
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Travis Build Matrix Badge

February 17th, 2015

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…

Brandon Fish
JVM

Groovy Closures Create Tidy, Flexible Services

February 3rd, 2015

Discussing Groovy Closures and why they are useful.

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