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It seems like everybody approaches the issue of accessing their configuration from their application code in a different way. Grails gives us some helpful shortcuts that make accessing the configurati...

The day started out cloudly and with a lot of rain. Fortunately the rain stopped during the day and for the next few days it should stay dry. This makes the walks to and from the hotel more comfortabl...

I'm a big fun of grey box functional testing of web applications. I understand grey box testing as setting up your test (for example bootstraping data in db that the test requires) programmatically in...

My colleague Arthur Arts has written a blog post Tasty Test Tip: Using ArgumentCaptor for generic collections with Mockito. This inspired me to do the same in Spock. Preview Text:  ...

Last year, vert.x was introduced - a runtime similar to Node.js but realized within the Java virtual machine. In contrast to Node.js, vert.x follows a true polyglot approach and allows developers to b...

Recently Gradle 1.6 has been released. I was lucky enough to get a lot of support from the Gradle team in the means of implementation guidance and code reviews for contributing a new feature: task ord...

One of the nice things about MongoDB is that documents are returned in JSON format. If you use the Mongo-GORM plugin, however, the driver conveniently converts the returned results into a Grails domai...

In just a few days I'll have the pleasure to present GPars at Gr8Conf EU 2013 in Copenhagen. I'm happy that the organizers accepted two GPars proposals this year. If you are coming to the conference a...

In our current project, we’re using DropWizard alongside Grails. It has become a fairly significant and useful tool for building simple content delivery layers. In this post, I will try to share...

We can run test code with Gradle using the test task that is added by the Java plugin. By default all tests found in the project are executed. If we want to run a single test we can use the ...