Grails 3.3 has Spock 1.1

You’ll be glad to know that milestone 1 of Grails 3.3 has been released 3 days ago — and is…

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Grails Anti-Pattern: Everything is a Service

The context Grails makes it very easy to put any logic of your application in a service. Just grails create-service…

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Grails Anti-Pattern: Locally Optimized Dynamic Finders Everywhere

The context Grails makes it very easy to persist and find stuff using domain classes. It uses GORM (Grails’ Object…

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Debugging Grails 3, Spring Boot or Gradle with Eclipse

This is a small post for those who’s primary IDE is Eclipse for developing Grails 3 apps or plugins —…

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The Librarian: Introduction to Test-Driven Development

This will be a series of articles revolving around unit testing where I will work through examples and exploring various…

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So If You’re Using Tag Libraries for Your View Models You Have To Test Them, Right?

In a previous post I introduced thinking about (visual) components and used a Task Browser as an example of an…

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2 Rookie Java Constants and Enums Pitfalls

In various code reviews I perform on Java and Groovy code I often see magic numbers and other random Strings…

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3 Steps For Analyzing a Gradle Project With SonarQube Using Docker

How hard can it be to get up and running with a Gradle project and getting it analyzed with SonarQube…

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Grails Design Consideration #2 – Throw In a View Model Once In a While – Ted Vinke’s Blog

This is my take on how we could design our particular user interface in such a way that they’re re-usable,…

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