2011 is gone and with new year comes new resolutions. Some of last year’s resolutions got resolved, others fell to the wayside, and now I’ve come to write down a few more. I never got back into grails – although I still feel like I want to. That one stays on the list! Revisited some […]
Two great demos in the morning regarding Gradle, by it’s author, Hans Docktor. Gradle is something I’d heard about frequently, but never bothered to look into thinking that I didn’t need to learn another way to build until it was necessary. Combining the declarative nature of a DSL with the scripting capabilities of Groovy, Gradle […]
Another good day at SpringOne. The first session of the day was with Burt Beckwith going over the Spring Security plugin(s) for Grails. The last Grails work I did was with the Shiro/JSecurity plugin, which worked well, but I’ve always been interested in the extended feature set of Spring Security and it’s extensions. I thought […]
It was an interesting day today at SpringOne2GX. There were many interesting presentations – here’s some thoughts on the 5 I attended today: Guillaume Laforge’s talk on Gaelyk first thing in the morning was very interesting. I’ve been casually following the Gaelyk project for a while and was happy to hear more about it from […]
I’ve recently found myself involved in some RoR work. It took a bit to take my java blinders off, but since they’ve been off, the work has been great. With past Grails experience in mind, here are a few first observations after a couple of weeks of being a Rails dev under my belt. I […]
As I mentioned earlier, I recently moved back to the Java world after a brief and enjoyable foray into Groovy & Grails. After a few minutes of becoming reacquainted with Spring MVC, I found myself wanting to make my Spring MVC app behave more like a Grails app. I’m lazy, what can I say? The […]
It’s been a while! Later this week, I’ll be posting on reliving the Grails dream with some tweaks to Spring MVC. Stay tuned.
Now that my first Groovy/Grails project has wrapped up, I thought I’d share some things I learned. I am a big fan of the framework, which is a somewhat biased opinion, mostly given my background as a java developer. Things that I already knew and appreciated were made easier to use. That’s usually a good […]
Section 11.2 of the Grails Framework Reference Docs talks about how to protect parameters in a Groovy/Grails app. On my current project, on public facing pages, we’ve been obscuring ids using the base64 codec that comes with grails. Here is a quick example: Obscure ids and keep those urls hard to guess!
The Shiro plugin page in the Grails plugin repository has great information. Here are a couple of additional items I picked up during an implementation on my current project: 1. Filter every action except ‘x’ on a given controller In this case, we’re taking advantage of common properties in grails. Basically, we’re filtering actions on […]
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