Browsing articles from "October, 2011"
Oct
31
2011

SpringOne2GX 2011 was one Groovy Show!

Grails Hacks and Refactors Audience

What a fantastic time we all had at SpringOne 2GX in Chicago over the last week. My head is jam packed full of information and I have so many new things to add to my list of cool Groovy tech to explore! If you’ve never made it to one (this was my first), I can highly recommend it! First things First: Relationships trump everything The absolute best part of these events is the chance to [...]

Oct
20
2011

DRYer Grails views? Learn less.css, backbone.js, twitter bootstrap and more @ 2GX

See Food Diet After Makeover

I’m just putting the final demo together for one of my sessions at SpringOne 2GX called “Does my DIV look big in this?” This talk brings together a whole bunch of technologies that I’ve been experimenting with for a while that help keep your view tier DRYer, namely: Grails Resources (for shrinking your dependencies) Various Grails and non-Grails DRY view technologies (including bean-fields, navigation, validation and other jQuery related goodness) Less.css for keeping your CSS [...]

Glen Smith

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Co-author Grails in Action