October 05, 2014

Spock Quick-Tip: Grails Integration Tests

I’m currently working in project with a nearly six year old Grails application. Over time, we changed from having plain JUnit 4/GroovyTestCase unit and integration tests to Spock...

October 04, 2014

Grails - Tracking Principals

We use the Grails auto timestamp feature in nearly all of our domain classes. It basically allows the definition of two special domain class properties dateCreated and

September 12, 2014

Google I/O App Insights

A while ago I came across the Google I/O App in one of the latest Android Developers blog posts. I thought it would be interesting to have a look...

September 08, 2014

REST Interfaces and Android

As I already told in my last blog post, I lately discovered this very good collection of open source projects from Square Inc., a commercial payment service. One...

August 31, 2014

Android Dependency Injection

I recently came across a very good collection of open source projects maintained by the guys from Square, a commercial payment service. One of their projects came in...

July 22, 2014

JUnit Rules and Spock

I recently had to implement a file upload for a Grails application. In this application we have quite a bunch of JUnit tests but we do want to utilize Spock...

April 06, 2014

Vagrant - Configuring a Solr Box

Recently I started some experiments with Vagrant. Vagrant is a tool that lets you (pre-) configure development environments. This can be done based on VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMWare or many...