I resolve, version 2.0

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 Continue reading →

SpringOne2GX, Day 2 Recap

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 Continue reading →

SpringOne2GX, Day 1 Recap

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 Continue reading →

Just call me Casey Jones

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 Continue reading →

Find the Grails in Spring MVC

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 Continue reading →

Back in the java saddle again

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.

I hope this keeps happening.

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 Continue reading →

Protecting Parameters in Groovy/Grails

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 Continue reading →

Shiro/Grails Tips

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. Continue reading →

Strange Days, Indeed

On my current project, I was adding a closure to a taglib that displayed a link conditionally, based on the current logged-in user’s role. The taglib is referenced on every Continue reading →