I’m marching through a pretty large groovyblogs refactor, with the goal of tidying up the codebase considerably. I’ve made a move to the JSecurity plugin so I can add a “remember me” feature, which paves the way for more a more sophisticated “preferences” subsystem down the track. The only problem was that I already has an Account table which contained passwords (base64 sha1) and a role column (string). I really wanted JSecurity to use my [...]

Since being given an ipod touch, I’ve been keen to explore the issues with designing for iphone web apps. With Grails In Action in final copy edits, I’ve finally got some free time to invest in a big refactor of groovyblogs. I’ve already reworked the security system to use JSecurity, moved all the custom search logic over to Searchable, and fixed the dread “numerous repost” problems when people mess with their feedburner/blog software/etc. It’s now [...]