I have been a huge fan of the Grails Searchable plugin, and its one of the main selling points when I talk to people about Grails. But something has made me go sour on it recently. A great blog post from Boris Goykhman about the plugin has prompted me to write my own.
For those …
Read More >Recently I needed to manipulate some HTML for a page where the HTML did not exist in the DOM tree as yet. Or more specifically, I wanted to clone some existing HTML, manipulate it and then re-insert it to the document.
Although JQuery has a great .clone(); method, all the examples talk about cloning and re-inserting …
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We recently launched Version 3 of the Posse Platform. With this release, we decided that it was time to look at our domain model. Something we had been avoiding because of the underlying fact …
Read More >I made a change last week to the Feature Flipper plugin and it now supports using native ConfigObject stored to a groovy config file as well as XML. The XML has remained to be backward compatible, but the ConfigObject is a better long term solution and is 'Groovier'.
To use it, you simply install the plugin …
Read More >So in the last post, we went through the process of creating screens and a controller to manage the features in our application. Now we get to the fun part! Creating some features!!! Lets simulate the following features;
In the last post we created a test application and installed our plugin, now we are ready to create a page where we can administer the features. In the future, I will be updating the plugin to support the ability to automatically install a controller and view to do what we are doing below, but …
Read More >The other day I wrote about my interest in support Feature Flipping in Production environments. Since I have been doing a lot of development in grails lately, I wanted to develop a plugin to support this functionality. And here it is!
This blog post is about how to use it. …
Read More >Some time ago I read in great interest about Flickr's Blog post on "flipping out", which is the ability to switch features on and off for a particular application in production. I know some of friends had implemented this so, I wanted to give it a go.
Some of the benefits to it include;
They are famous words that have echoed with me for nearly 15 years. They were spoken to me by one of my early mentors in business. The discussion was around where you should invest in a business. And no matter how you looked it; great technology, great ideas, great processes, and even unique concepts are …
Read More >To have reached the No#1 spot in the Australian Aria Album Charts this week, you simply needed to have sold 3,600 copies!!!
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