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Sorting flex Arrays by Date
I have been wanting to figure out a reliable way of doing this for a while, and suddenly the necessity arose for me to do it, so I have a solution. As far as I can tell if you have a date field in an...
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Styling grails-ui elements
The grails-ui plugin has a very rich feature set, being based on the Yahoo’s YUI library. I have been trying to avoid it, but eventually I have caved and I need a modal dialog box for my web page. I...
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Hallelujah. Code formatting in my wordpress blog!
How did I not know about the Sourcecode tags? I have spent years trying to figure out how to post nice looking code to my blog and was misled by all the plug-in nonsense which only applies if you are...
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*Really* simple asynchronous file upload in Grails
I spent ages trying to decide which was the best way for me to implement file upload in my grails app. What I wanted was the ability for a user to select an image from their local machine and for it to...
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*Really* simple Mail service for authsmtp in Grails
OK, after A MONTH of trying to figure out how to get the Grails mail plugin to talk to authsmtp, and *utterly* failing, in a puddle of tears this afternoon at my 1,745th attempt at finding out anything...
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*Really* simple S3 persistence from Grails
I recently posted about really simple file upload in my app and once I had that working I moved onto my next problem, which was in two parts, 1) making the persistence location flexible – and scalable...
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Recruiting. Challenges.
We’ve been very actively recruiting for some time and I previously posted about the framework we’re using to assess people. At the bottom of that post I alluded to the “programming challenges” that we...
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Upgrading to Java 7 on an Amazon Linux AMI
OK, so I’m going to deploy a Play 2 app, backed by MySQL, into AWS. I am using RDS for the MySQL instance, so I’m not expecting any trouble there, but my code does use Java 1.7, as does my Play 2...
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Deploying a Play 2 App to Amazon EC2 connected to RDS
Some more fun and games with deployment of Play to EC2. Just to set the scene, I have a Play 2 app which was built locally using Java 1.7. I connect it to an Amazon RDS MySQL instance. All this...
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