Cloud Foundry + Grails + RabbitMQ – Publishing Messages into the Cloud
Having RabbitMQ in Cloud Foundry is great as I can now start using messaging between my applications running on Cloud Foundry. The next topic I would like to address is how can I publish a message...
View ArticleCloud Foundry + Grails + RabbitMQ – Publishing Messages into the Cloud
Having RabbitMQ in Cloud Foundry is great as I can now start using messaging between my applications running on Cloud Foundry. The next topic I would like to address is how can I publish a message...
View ArticleRESTfullness and web-frameworks
After working on an offline mobile web app that integrated with a Grails backend, and after that being prompted to explore options for a new some green field development, which lead me to re-evalutate...
View ArticleDRYer Grails views? Learn less.css, backbone.js, twitter bootstrap and more @...
I’m just putting the final demo together for one of my sessions at SpringOne 2GX called “Does my DIV look big in this?” This talk brings together a whole bunch of technologies that I’ve been...
View ArticlePlugin News: REST client facilities
Description The REST plugin enables the usage of HTTPBuilder on a Grails application. Usage The plugins will inject the following dynamic methods: withHttp(Map params, Closure stmts) – executes stmts...
View ArticleBreif Introduction to REST
This is from a guest lecture that I delivered to a web-programming class at Bethel University this past month. Brief Introduction to REST Grails Supports REST in various ways: Exposing resources in UR…...
View ArticleCustomized Grails Controller for REST
Update: new code https://gist.github.com/4152409 Grails can do RESTfull easily enough, but I wanted a restful API from grails without throwing out grails scaffolding, So I decided to customize Grails’...
View ArticleGrails Dropwizard Plugin
I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about Dropwizard as a framework for creating REST services. I thought it would be interesting to integrate it with Grails, but it ended up being a lot more work than I...
View ArticleThis Week in Grails (2013-09)
We released Grails 2.1.4 and 2.2.1 this week; they are primarily bug fix releases. Registration for GR8Conf Europe 2013 is now open. Be sure to sign up soon while the prices are very low. I’ve been...
View ArticleChoosing DropWizard to deliver content within your Grails projects
In our current project, we’re using DropWizard alongside Grails. It has become a fairly significant and useful tool for building simple content delivery layers. In this post, I will try to share some...
View ArticleNew Blog: This Week in Spring – Sept 3rd, 2013
Welcome to This Week in Spring! SpringOne is almost upon us! It kicks off this weekend with the Cloud Foundry Platform event and continues on until next Thursday. I, personally, am very excited (and a...
View ArticleNew Blog: Great new bits in Grails 2.3.0
Kotek and I got to head out to SpringOne 2GX to speak, but we had to leave Todd, Yo, and Stroz at home. (Marc’s off in Pythonland.) I’m in a session that is a) really good but b) stuff I know, so I...
View ArticleNew Event: Dan Woods (@danveloper) Discusses His Latest Grails Adventures
In a month or so, 27th February, we will be joined by Senior Groovanglist Dan Woods. Dan will be joining us at Netflix in Los Gatos, for an “au courant” look at the advanced REST features in Grails...
View ArticleNew Blog: Groovy Goodness: Customize ToString Creation
The @ToString AST transformation has several parameters we can define to customize the generated code for the toString method. We have already seen some of the parameters in an earlier blog post, but...
View ArticleNew Blog: Grails Goodness: Enable Accept Header for User Agent Requests
Especially when we use Grails to create a RESTful API we want to enable the request header Accept, so Grails can do content negotiation based on the value in the header. For example we could use the...
View ArticleNew Event: Violent Gnomes App: a Grails REST 101
To get our meetup schedule kicked off we’re going to start with a simple REST web app live coding demo using Grails. Javascript client based web apps are a growing focus of modern web application...
View ArticleNew Blog: Ratpack’s execution model, part 1.
A not well known aspect of Ratpack is its execution model. It’s quite well known that Ratpack uses the non-blocking/asynchronous paradigm, but its execution model is more than this. Asynchronous...
View ArticleNew Event: AngularJS for Java Developers
Note: we are currently looking for a host for October and November. Let us know if you can host. Ideally, you have space for 50, a projector (or at least a screen), and wifi. This month Loc Nguyen will...
View ArticleNew Blog: Groovy Weekly #36
Related Posts: New Blog: Groovy Weekly #11 New Blog: Groovy Weekly #1 New Blog: Groovy Weekly #12 New Blog: Groovy Weekly #2 New Blog: Groovy Weekly #30 The post New Blog: Groovy Weekly #36 appeared...
View ArticleNew Event: PA: Storage Solutions for Big Data with Hadoop Architect, Sameer...
PA: Storage Solutions for Big Data with Sameer Tiwari NOTE: THIS MEETUP IS IN PALO ALTO at 5:45pm PDT There is a plethora of storage solutions for big data, each having its own pros and cons. The...
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