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Advanced GORM features: inheritance, embedded data, maps and lists storing
In my previous GORM related article, “Association Types in GORM“, I have described how to create different types of relationships using Grails ORM. In this article, I would like to talk about several advanced GORM features that…
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Managing configuration of a distributed system with Apache ZooKeeper
One of the steps towards building a successful distributed software system is establishing effectiveconfiguration management. It is a complex engineering process which is responsible for planning, identifying, trackingand verifying changes in the software and its configuration as…
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Dynamically add and remove HTML blocks with Grails tag library and JQuery
This post shows how to create Grails tag library for adding and removing identical HTML blocks, which can be usedwhen you want to give user an option to dynamically add extra inputs for additional information. There are…
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Usability testing. Practical guideline. Part One
The primary purpose of any commercial website is to effectively sale services or products. That is where theuser experience design which includes various usability solutions comes into focus. This article considerskey concepts of the user experience and…
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Basics of AppleScript: Mac OS scripting Language
Every computer user has to deal with boring and time-consuming operations such as sending a lot of similar emails,converting files between formats, making backups and so on. Mac OS has a handy tool that is called AppleScript…
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Tools battle: SpiraTest, TestRail and TestLodge
The modern IT marketplace of the high technologies offers the multiplicity of great solutions for software testing.In this article we review the pros and cons of the most famous web-based test management tools:SpiraTest,TestRail andTestLodge.Every of the mentioned…
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Scala REST API Integration Testing with Spray-testkit
Here you can find out how to create integration tests for RESTful service on the example of application shown in the article “Building REST service with Scala“. To create the tests, I am going to use spray-testkit…
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Creating a custom website or a theme with Grain
Grain theme is a project that provides a layout-based skeleton for creating static websites by only adjusting the configuration and adding a content. This post shows how to use the theme template in order to create a…
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The art of writing effective and transparent test cases
Test cases are the key elements of testing, therefore the ability to write effective tests is oneof the most important technical skills of a quality assurance engineer.This post covers conditions to writing efficient test cases, the most…
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Creating paginated archives in Grain
There are very few things in Grain framework that need a detailed explanation except being described in the docs. However, there’s one thing, which I really want to clarify in details for Grain users. I wanted to…
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Deployment to GitHub pages is introduced
There’s been three weeks since we made first public release of Grain and we’re back to share some release news with you. First of all, we’d like to thank to all the people, who showed interest in…
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Groovy application utilizing Spring IoC example
With the latest performance enhancements and great dynamic, functional and meta-programming features Groovy becomes a very good choice not only for scripting, but also for big and complex application building. Long term complex application development requires extensive…
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