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;
I wouldn’t consider myself a Mac Fanboy (because I use and like other platforms and OSes) but I truly admire the constant quality that comes out of Cupertino. Their hardware, software, strategy and brand just comes together brilliantly.
But many of their applications are quite flawed, and need a lot of work. Regardless, I’ll typically persist …
Read More >One of the challenges with any software development team is to understand who should be driving the requirements? Typically this should be the responsibility of the Product Manager. But at Posse, we don’t have a Product Manager, instead, product management is done by myself and the CEO. This may be a little unusual, but as …
Read More >I finally got a UI designer to complete the mockups for my site. And when it was time to get the HTML markup, he suggested I use a “Design to HTML” service. There is lots of them out there. You pretty much give them the Photoshop PSD file, and in return they provide you with …
Read More >I have decided to blog about this, as I have had never ending problems in the past to try and get this configured. Here is the scenario; you have a project that requires hosting a single website in a single web domain, but you have a mix of PHP applications and Java (or in my …
Read More >So you wake up in a cold sweat one night as you are in a ‘half sleep”. While you were in this delirious moment, you conjure up the most amazing idea that is going to make you a bazillion dollars and no one has done it before!!!!!
ho hum…………………..BORING!!!!
This is one of those urban myths that …
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