Category Archives: grails

Grails Video Plugin (flv transcoding & asset management)

Posted on November 13, 2007 by peter

During the years I’ve been involved in digital media related projects quite a bit. With the current dominance of flash video stuff has become a bit more straightforward; you don’t have to support multiple proprietary formats in parallel anymore. I … Continue reading →

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Grails – 1.0-RC1

Posted on October 18, 2007 by peter

Two days ago Grails reached the 1.0 milestone; the first release candidate is out. New Features inlude: GORM features ORM DSL for advanced Mappings Support for easy to use Filters Tag Library Improvements – Namespaces, body variables, page scope, improved … Continue reading →

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Grails and tests – Part II: Testing dynamic taglibs using XmlSlurper

Posted on October 2, 2007 by peter

A couple of days ago I wrote my first post on TDD using Grails. Now let’s move on to something more interesting: testing dynamic taglibs. In another post I showed how to create a simple tag. Which looked like this: … Continue reading →

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Grails and tests – Part I: Getting started with TDD

Posted on September 26, 2007 by peter

Writing tests for a Grails applications is really simple. In Groovy code actually compiles when non-existing methods of objects are referenced (as opposed to Java) which makes it possible exercise TDD (test driven development). Grails supports two types of tests … Continue reading →

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BOTG 2007

Posted on September 26, 2007 by peter

Yesterday I presented at the Battle of the Geeks 2007 organized by my employer. 4 presentations where given and people in the audience where asked to rate each presentation using special cards. (I translated this post to Dutch for the … Continue reading →

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Grails 0.6 Released

Posted on August 31, 2007 by peter

Today Graeme and the Grails team have released a significant new version of Grails: 0.6. One of the more interesting bits added in this release is the addition rich conversation support (Spring Web Flow under the hood) called Grails Flow. … Continue reading →

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Grails – Soap

Posted on August 28, 2007 by peter

Since working with, or creating WebServices is something webdevelopers will probably do regularly (or stumble upon in the very near future) I decided to have a look at Grails‘ support for SOAP. First thing I wanted to see was how … Continue reading →

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Grails – Render method & Markup builder

Posted on August 26, 2007 by peter

During Graemes’ demo of Grails at javasummercamp he briefly pointed out the fact that one can implicitly use the Groovy MarkupBuilder (Similar to the Markaby DSL for Ruby) within the render method of an action for generating markup. Which makes … Continue reading →

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Proficts’ Javasummercamp on Rails/Grails/Java

Posted on August 26, 2007 by peter

Yesterday I visited Proficts’ Java Summercamp called “Rails en Grails en Java: Nieuwe talen op de JVM”. Which in essence should have been a small seminar on the topic of new languages on the JVM. In reality Charles Nutter presented … Continue reading →

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Grails templating & Ajax

Posted on August 24, 2007 by peter

Grails’ templating system is cool. There is no doubt about it. It’s what I wanted JSP2.0 tagfiles to be. In essence they’re not so different from tagfiles in practice their versatility is a fair bit higher. Templates in Grails reside … Continue reading →

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