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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Christmas Blues

So, it’s getting to be that time of year again- and I’ve come to a realization. I really don’t [...]
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Using GitHub for a Grails Plugin (Revised)

In the HEAD of Grails is an updated ReleasePlugin script. This version of the script now allows you to [...]
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Career of What I Was Going To Do Anyway

When I was a teenager, my main mode of social interaction was paper-and-pencil role playing games. Among my favorite [...]
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Groovy and Grails Training Courses

As those who saw my “Intro to Grails” Presentation Slides know, I am offering some training courses on Groovy and [...]
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The Joy of Behavior Driven Development (BDD), or, Re-writing Code in Asserts is Not Unit Testing

The thing that is distinct about BDD is that instead of just having a hunk of code that throws an exception if something changes, BDD drives the developer to think in terms of context and contract.
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