July 23, 2009
by j pimmel
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I recently figured out how to use WebTest for functional testing of Grails controller actions that render JSON. That said, I’m not convinced it’s the best way – I’m fairly sure the gFunc plugin would do it nicely, though I … Continue reading
July 7, 2009
by j pimmel
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The No Fluff, Just Stuff 2009 Tour rolls into Seattle on September 18-20th. The line-up has some interesting speakers: Brian Goetz, Author of Java Concurrency in Practice Brian Sletten, REST Expert David Geary, Author of Graphic Java and co-author of … Continue reading
March 26, 2009
by j pimmel
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Spring has sprung and with that hails the first Vancouver Groovy and Grails meet of the year. Time: Monday 30th March, 18:00 Place: WorkSpace @ 21 Water Street in Gastown, #400 Topics under the spotlight this time round are twofold: … Continue reading
March 26, 2009
by j pimmel
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If you like statistics and Grails you will be pleased to know that Grails is trending higher in searches than Spring Framework since mid-2008. Check out this Google Trends graph. (thanks @schmichri)
March 17, 2009
by j pimmel
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@graemerocher just tweeted about the Nuts Grails plugin which provides web based IDE from within your Grails application. Talk about eating your own dogfood! Here’s some of the key features as listed on the project homepage: Currently code completion is … Continue reading
March 16, 2009
by j pimmel
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For those using Grails 1.1 already there’s a new command line argument for testing which re-runs only tests which previously failed. grails test-app -rerun Thanks to @wangjammer5
March 12, 2009
by j pimmel
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Gus Power and Kris Lander of EnergizedWork just presented ‘No Excuses: Concept to Cash Every Week‘ at QCon London which highlights the manner by which development is executed within the EnergizedWork stable. It’s worth reviewing the slides (available via ‘No … Continue reading
February 10, 2009
by j pimmel
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Grails gets centre stage for being used by Wired.com in it’s new ‘Product Reviews’ site area. Needless to say, I was unsurprised by (and in full agreement with) the following statements in the release: Our developers are much happier developing in Grails because … Continue reading
January 2, 2009
by j pimmel
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In my previous article on performance testing, I suggested that incremental and iterative development of performance unit tests was an essential part of your overall performance testing strategy. However, performance testing the parts of a system is vastly different from … Continue reading
December 29, 2008
by j pimmel
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I’ve done a lot of performance analysis and improvement in my time although it’s only in my last 3 projects that we started automating it. In all cases a developer check-in would trigger the execution of a battery of stress/concurrency … Continue reading