Monthly Archives: February 2009

360 Degrees of Form Processing with Grails and GrailsUI Modal Dialogs

Daniel Honig is an independent architect/developer/consultant living in New York City. Daniel is a contributor to GrailsUI and is writing this post as a guest for the benefit of GrailsUI users.
So recently I was reviewing some work that was done for us by a few developers of our team and discovered that we had some very ugly code that used an iframe inside of a gui dialog for a form submission. This resulted in the dialog appearing with scroll bars and other undesirable behavior.
Why was it that they had chosen to use an iframe instead of  just  using [...]


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Groovy on TDD: KCJUG Follow Up

I had a great time presenting on “Groovy and TDD” last night at the Kansas City JUG. There was a great turn-out, and I had a chance to meet and greet lots of interesting people.
As promised, here is the code we wrote together in our TDD exercise, verbatim. There was also a question [...]


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Groovy TDD Exhibition at Kansas City JUG

I’ll be giving a Groovy TDD Demonstration at the Kansas City JUG this Wednesday night at Centriq Foss Training Center!
This will include a (very) short introduction to Groovy and dynamic programming. Then I’ll be building a unit conversion application from scratch using TDD and input from the audience. I have a complete target [...]


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