http://www.mattstine.com Thoughts on Java, Groovy, Grails, Agile Development, etc. etc. etc. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:42:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A local Pastor once gave the advice of introducing ourselves and our kids to dead people. It is his belief that if his kids grow up idolizing the likes of Eric Liddell, Jim Elliot, and Hudson Taylor, they would be far better off than by looking up to many of ... http://www.mattstine.com/2010/02/16/dead-programmers-society/ If anyone's interested, here's a clue as to what I'm working on in 2010: http://www.mattstine.com/2010/01/06/lotytoty-for-2010/ So you've just installed the handy dandy Spring Security plugin (http://grails.org/plugin/acegi), which makes it incredibly easy to secure entire Grails controllers and/or controller actions with annotations, such as the following: This is enabled by turning on controller annotations in your SecurityConfig.groovy file: So all is now good in our project. We can ... http://www.mattstine.com/2009/11/10/securing-grails-plugin-artifacts-with-filters/ I spent about an hour last night reading through Francesco Cirillo's e-book The Pomodoro Technique. Up until this point I knew the basics of the technique, but I really wanted to drill down and get the details. I won't explain those here - visit http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ to get the lowdown. What ... http://www.mattstine.com/2009/11/04/pomodoro-the-first-iteration/ Yes, it's true. I came to the realization that there is such a thing as TADD...technology attention deficit disorder. Ironically, I came to this realization while reading a sample chapter from the upcoming book from the Prags, Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes? ... http://www.mattstine.com/2009/11/03/hi-im-matt-stine-and-i-have-technology-add/ It's now Wednesday night, day 2.5 of SpringOne/2GX in New Orleans, LA. Normally I like to blog about each session that I attend when I make it to SpringOne, but as this has been my first year here as a speaker, I've spent practically all of my free time tweaking ... http://www.mattstine.com/2009/10/21/thoughts-so-far-on-springone2gx/ I spent the better part of yesterday tracing my way through the codebase for a large-scale enterprise application that my team is building right now, and I happened upon the following piece of code: //...imports excluded for clarity public class BusinessActivityBinMetaClassHelper { //... public static List<Long> getSrmMetaClassIdListJava(List<BusinessActivityBinMetaClass> businessActivityBinMetaClassList) { ... http://www.mattstine.com/2009/10/09/making-java-groovier-with-lambdaj/ Our team got to spend a few days with Jared Richardson this week, talking tech leadership, agile, and automated testing. At some point during the opening day's discussion, I related the story of how I initially got into Test Driven Development (TDD) and how it seriously ramped up my productivity ... http://www.mattstine.com/2009/10/03/test-driven-development-worked-for-me/ Isabella, my second oldest daughter, just made the cutoff to be featured on one of the very popular "Mommy Blogs" out there, Totally Tots. Way to go Bella! http://www.mattstine.com/2009/06/25/isabella-featured-on-totally-tots/ I promised that I would post the links I mentioned in my talk last night at the Memphis JUG...here they are: General Session Replays: http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/general_sessions.jsp BlogTalkRadio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/JavaOne JavaOne Minute: http://channelsun.sun.com/video/channel-you/javaone+minute/23867338001 Technical Sessions 2008-2009: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/ (Must be SDN Member - FREE!) The Da Vinci Machine Project: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ Groovy: http://groovy.codehaus.org Java.net Community Corner: http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javaone/CommunityCorner JUGS Community: http://community.java.net/jugs/ Scala: http://scala-lang.org SpringSource: http://www.springsource.com JUG-USA: https://jug-usa.dev.java.net/ OpenSolaris: ... http://www.mattstine.com/2009/06/19/javaone-brain-dump-resources-from-memphis-jug-meeting/