Monthly Archives: January 2009

Upcoming Grails-UI 1.1 New Features: Charts

Here is a little chart teaser while I’m at it :)
Line Chart

Bar Chart

Column Chart

Pie Chart

This is the third of several installments on new features that will be a part of Grails-UI 1.1. I’m still working on it, and I’m not sure when the release date will be, but if you’d like to try it [...]


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Upcoming Grails-UI 1.1 New Features: DataTable Inline Cell Editing

One of the most requested features for Grails-UI was inline cell editing for the dataTable component. In order to make this work, you’ll need to have a URL to send the change request. Each row can have its own editor, which can have its own URL for change requests. In this example, [...]


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Upcoming Grails-UI 1.1 New Features: Menus

To make a menubar like this:

You’ll need to include a ‘menu’ component in your gui:resources tag, then try this markup:

My default, menubars will render to the document body, but you can provide an optional renderTo attribute and have it render to any other container. I think it would be a cool idea to combine [...]


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Use Gist at Github for Sharing Code Snippets

I like using pastie to share code snippet with friends and colleagues. But not now that I’ve found gist (thanks to twitter, of course).
Check this out…

That was a gist snippet I own, embedded (very easily) into my blog. You can go there, fork it, and make changes if you want, and all the [...]


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UI Developers? LEARN JAVASCRIPT!

I started ranting this morning on Marc Palmer’s blog in response to a post he made about the implementation of JavaScript UI frameworks as plugins to web frameworks. Marc and I have an amicable professional relationship (even though he went through a strange Toto phase), and I think it better to post my response [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: