There’s a very active discussion going on at the moment regarding Play 2 over the Google Group, and it’s really polarising opinion. A lot of people still seem to be under the impression that Play 2 is only a Scala Read more
To start, a couple of disclaimers: 1. Growing up, I loved Doctor Who – both the TV series and books. Can’t add anything else to this particular disclaimer – I absolutely loved them. 2. On a similar, yet diametrically opposed, Read more
In the first part of this tutorial, we looked at the bare basics for creating, publishing and calling a module. The module we created didn’t really do much, so now it’s time to look at expaning the functionality using some Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I migrated the Play! framework 1.x version of Deadbolt to the Play 2 platform, and was surprised at the lack of information on creating modules. This topic was covered in detail in the Play 1.x Read more
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve possibly noticed a complete lack of political content. That’s exactly how I like it. However, I read an article earlier about Morocco that, as a father of a daughter*, makes me Read more
A few weeks ago, I started playing around with Backbone.js. At the end of last week, I noticed something on Twitter about Leaflet. I’ve been a long-time devotee of the Play! framework, as you may be aware if you’ve ever Read more
This blog has a lot of entries related to how-tos with the Play! framework, but one thing it’s missing is possibly an explanation of why I use Play so much. It’s simple – I consider Play to be seven-league boots. Read more
Back in 2010, when I was young and full of beans, I wrote an authorization module called Deadbolt for the Play! framework in its 1.x incarnation. It was originally written to fulfil some needs I had for projects I was Read more