You’ve just got to love the Maven Enforcer plugin. Anything with a byline of “The Loving Iron Fist of Maven” has got to endear you, no? The Enforcer is a collection of configurable rules that will force your build to stop if certain preconditions are not met. One of the common ways I’ve been using it lately is to ensure that a certain JDK (1.4 in my case – don’t get me started on Websphere) [...]

Well it’s finally happened! I’ve ported groovyblogs over to Grails 1.2 M2 – and it’s been a fantastic experience. The new Grails milestone has been totally awesome – I haven’t had to do any restarts during development! That has been sensational. Firstly, and *very* importantly, I’ve been working with Matthew Porter’s team at Contegix to move groovyblogs over to the Contegix Zeus Cloud offering. All I can say is Wow! I never wait for than [...]