29 Nov 2011

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24 Nov 2011

Fear & loathing in functional testing land

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As projects grow the two things I’ve repeatedly found to be particularly painful have been functional testing and data fixtures. I might wri...
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26 Aug 2011

Grails Gotcha: Beware HEAD requests when rendering binary output in controllers

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Although most Grails controllers render HTML, JSON or XML output it is possible to use them to render binary data as well. We use a control...
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18 Aug 2011

Data-driven variation with Spock

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Spock’s where: block is commonly used with a data table but can also be driven by any Iterable data. It’s worth bearing in mind that the...
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2 Aug 2011

Avoiding accidental i18n in Grails

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We’re developing an app that’s exclusively for a UK audience so i18n really isn’t an issue for us. However recently we got bitten by some i1...
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21 May 2011

Resources plugin and modular web components for Grails apps

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I recently gave a talk on ‘Building progressive UIs with Grails’ at gr8conf in Copenhagen and was really pleased with the feedback & c...
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26 Mar 2011

CSS box model hacking

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Want to make an HTML element fill 100% of its parent’s width but also give it a border and/or some padding? Since the width of an element is...
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