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Keep Calm & Groovy On!
January 23rd, 2015
Grails and Groovy will continue to be part of our toolkit and part of our client solutions in the future.
Object Partners
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Reset Your H2 Database For A Clean State Between Functional Tests
January 13th, 2015
For automated tests, a solution to reset your H2 database between each test.
David Norton
JVM
Grails cdn-asset-pipeline Plugin for Improving Web Site Performance
January 6th, 2015
Easily push your Grails assets to a S3 backed CDN with the cdn-asset-pipeline.
Patrick Double
Devops
Chef Tips & Hints - A Restrospective
December 23rd, 2014
Chef lessons learned. Dealing with Attributes, Databags, Roles, Cookbooks, and Berkshelf.
Object Partners
JVM
Copying multiple directories in a single Gradle task with up-to-date checking
December 11th, 2014
How to write a single Gradle task to copy multiple directories and still use up-to-date checking.
Object Partners
JVM
Case-insensitive criteria ordering on child properties
December 3rd, 2014
A workaround for a couple of Grails 2.x bugs and changes that have made it difficult to sort criteria case-insensitively when using child/nested properties.
Igor Shults
JVM
Vert.x Fat Jar Deployments
November 25th, 2014
Fat jar deployments in Vert.x can simplify the delivery of your software. One drawback is limited options for module dependencies, which this post will address.
Object Partners
JVM
UDP Server with Spring Boot and Reactor
November 18th, 2014
A tutorial and accompanying project for creating a simple UDP server with Spring Boot and Reactor.
Object Partners
JVM
StringTemplates in Groovy
November 11th, 2014
Using the StringTemplateEngine in Groovy -- troubleshooting, gotchas, and everything else.
Mike Hostetler
Mobile
Building a Kiosk Application in Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
November 4th, 2014
Building a Kiosk Application in Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
Object Partners
JVM
Experiences with Publishing a Grails Plugin
October 29th, 2014
Blog on creating a Grails plugin to implement HTTP compression.
Patrick Double
JVM
Logging REST Exceptions with Spring
October 21st, 2014
Logging REST Exceptions with Spring using ResponseEntityExceptionHandler
Jeff Sheets
Mobile
Developing a native Android App using Groovy
September 4th, 2014
Simple Android app using Groovy
Object Partners
JVM
GR8Conf US Recap: Why Your Company Should Adopt Groovy!
August 25th, 2014
At the 2014 GR8Conf US, Scott Hickey from Object Partners and Jim McGill from Mutual of Omaha spoke about a large mission-critical Groovy application.
Object Partners
JavaScript
Add Javascript unit tests and run them with grails test-app
August 19th, 2014
With frameworks like Jasmine, Karma, and Grails, we can write Javascript tests and run them with grails test-app.
Igor Shults
JVM
Static website generation in Groovy
July 29th, 2014
Grain is a static site generator written in Groovy
Mike Hostetler
Mobile
Adding Custom Locations for iOS Simulator Testing
July 22nd, 2014
A quick tip showing how to add custom locations to your app for testing CLLocation services in the iOS simulator.
Steve McCoole
JVM
Grails API Functional Testing
July 15th, 2014
Examples of testing Grails APIs with Grails Rest Client Builder, Groovy Http Builder, and Apache Http Client
Object Partners
JVM
Groovys .with() and multiple assignment
July 9th, 2014
Groovy has a limitation that restricts multiple assignment to simple variables. However, by using with(), we may be able to work around that.
Igor Shults
Mobile
Developing Private In-House Libraries with CocoaPods
June 25th, 2014
CocoaPods is the dependency manager we use at Object Partners to integrate open source iOS libraries. We also use it to manage private libraries for our iOS apps.
Torey Lomenda
JVM
Gradle Summit 2014 Recap
June 18th, 2014
Review of material and presentations from Gradle Summit 2014, Santa Clara, California.
Object Partners
JavaScript
Pooling Web Service Connections in Grails
June 11th, 2014
Using Apache Commons Pool from Groovy and Grails is an easy to use tool to configure an object pool on the JVM, especially for reusing expensive to create JAX-WS Web Service connections.
Jeff Sheets
JVM
Inline initialization of Java Maps
June 5th, 2014
Inline initialization of Java Maps is never pretty, this solution provides a type safe and efficient way to do so.
Neil Buesing
JavaScript
Extending Angulars $resource Service for a Consistent API
June 3rd, 2014
Extending Angulars $resource service to make it easy to declare resources and REST APIs. Wrapping the $resource service to normalize the REST calls to make it easier to work with promises and the $q service.
Object Partners
JavaScript
Unit test your server-side JavaScript with Spock
May 29th, 2014
Learn how to use Spock, the powerful Groovy-based specification framework, to unit test your server-side JavaScript with style.
David Norton