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Jan 31, 2013
Eclipse Enum Switch Warning
I recently encountered some Java code with what seemed to be an odd warning. ...
Jan 25, 2013
Profiling Grails Applications With VisualVM
Lately, I have been finding the need to get into the bowels of Grails in order to increase the performance of large batch type features of any application. Most of the time the issue appears ...
Jan 24, 2013
Presentation: Grails REST with Client-side Javascript
Download Full Presentation The highly-productive Grails web application framework combines the powerful Groovy language with the tried-and-true Spring and Hibernate frameworks. JavaScript client-side frameworks (such as Backbone.js and Angular.js) simplify developing high-power dynamic, cross-browser apps. ...
Jan 24, 2013
News: OPI hires consultant Erich Weidner
Object Partners announces the addition of consultant Erich Weidner to their technology consulting staff. Erich brings over 10 years of experience doing system analysis, design, and development. His work ranges from enterprise Java applications for ...
DIY Graphing Calculator: Google Visualization Grails Plugin
The last time that I had to meet customer requirements for creating and rendering charts, I ended up building a complex, data-driven, dynamic wizard style application which was built on top of a large API ...
Gradle Quick Start
Gradle is a relatively new build system that is picking up steam. In this post we’ll demonstrate it’s convention over configuration strengths and walk through a simple example. Gradle follows the convention over configuration model. ...
Customizing Grails Scaffolding and Adding Accessibility with the Fields Plugin
One of the oft-touted benefits of Grails is that you can automatically generate a user interface for basic database operations such as creating a new entity, updating, deleting, and listing all entities. While this looks ...
Jan 9, 2013
REST Client Testing With MockRestServiceServer
Functionally testing a REST Client is simple with the new MockRestServiceServer if you are using Spring’s RestTemplate to power the client. This is a new feature in Spring 3.2.x but was available via the spring-test-mvc ...
Using Google Analytics iOS SDK in Shared Library Projects
Recently I added Google Analytics to an iOS project that included several shared libraries that I use for common, reusable code.  This presented an organizational challenge as I needed to send events to Google Analytics ...