When I attended the BeJUG session on the Play! Framework a few weeks ago, I was glad (but not especially surprised) to see how popular the session was. It’s been a busy few weeks since then, but in the meantime Read more
If you’ve read any other entries on this blog, you’ll know that I’m an advocate of the Play! Framework. As of today, this has changed. My client is currently in the process of migrating their services to a federated collection Read more
I’ve just prepared a course on jQuery to give to my colleagues, and one of the sections covers jQuery’s AJAX features. To demonstrate these, I wrote a quick web app using Play 2. Since there have been a few questions Read more
Now you’ve doubtless followed my earlier guides on writing modules for Play 2, I imagine you’re keen to show your coding chops to the world. The problem is – and this is quite a big one, I’m afraid – there Read more
Ever read Freakonomics? There’s a great chapter on how internet-accessible information drove down insurance premiums massively. The same story can be found in many places – but some companies are apparently completely oblivious to this. Which is the specific company Read more
Back in November, I spoke to Nicolas Leroux of the Play framework about creating a module repository. He agreed it would be a good idea, but lack of time has prevented me from starting this. Following the stormy events of Read more
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