I get a lot of questions on GrailsUI here on my blog, and while it is nice to get feedback, blog comments aren’t the best place to give out technical advice. If you have any questions or comments about GrailsUI, I invite you to become part of the Grails community and join the Grails User [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged design, flame-bait, GrailsUI, javascript, opinion, plugin |
Sometimes I deal with maps of maps in Groovy. Config files in Groovy generally boil down to combinations of maps and lists. I’ve found myself with a reference to one entry within this structure, wanting to back out to the parent of the entry. This is especially the case within builders, where [...]
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Recently, my friend and colleague asked some questions about package naming conventions in Grails. I think they were excellent questions, and I wouldn’t be surprised if others were wondering about the same things. You could get into arguments with some guys over stuff like this, but here is my opinion…
com.businessname.appname
Is there an inherent [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged flame-bait, grails, java, opinion |
