Eric Foster-Johnson

Principal Consultant

Eric has decades of industry experience in designing and developing complex enterprise software, including designing and developing Grails and Java EE solutions to tough client problems. He has experience leading development teams, mentoring developers, and helping troublesome projects get back onto a success track. He has lead teams in both traditional and agile settings.

Recent Blog Posts

JVM

Monitoring Grails Applications The Easy Way

August 30th, 2016

Using out of the box features along with a small amount of coding, you can extract a lot of metrics from your Grails applications

Eric Foster-Johnson
JVM

Reverse-Engineer Old Databases With Grails

October 10th, 2013

Create Grails domain classes from your legacy database tables.

Eric Foster-Johnson
JVM

Customizing Grails Scaffolding and Adding Accessibility with the Fields Plugin

January 16th, 2013

Customize the way Grails generates user interfaces to get a look much closer to what you need with the fields plugin. Finally, Grails scaffolding can be useful.

Eric Foster-Johnson
JavaScript

Potential Gotcha When Upgrading Spring MVC

January 11th, 2010

Bizarre JavaScript errors surfaced after upgrading Spring and Spring MVC. Heres what we found.

Eric Foster-Johnson
JavaScript

Short Tips for Creating Mobile Web Content

August 5th, 2009

As smart mobile phones such as the iPhone or the Palm Pre offer a better Web-browsing experience, it becomes easier to offer access to enterprise Web applications from these devices. Designing Web content for mobile devices isn’t that much different…

Eric Foster-Johnson