One of the nicest features in Play 2, but one which doesn’t seem to be widely covered, is the JavaScript routing that can be generated by the framework to make AJAX-based client code more maintainable. Here, I’m going to cover Read more
The fair is in town, and I need money. Where do I get money from? The bank. I enter the bank. I see a piece of paper loosely stuck to the ATM advertising the bank’s mobile application, and conveniently including Read more
Testing. I’ve been thinking a lot about testing recently. As part of code reviews I’ve done for various projects, I’ve seen thousands of lines of untested code. This is not just a case of test coverage statistics pointing this out, Read more
It’s been an interesting few months since I last wrote anything here. Apart from a fairly hectic project in work, my wife is re-training as a software developer and so I’ve been able to find out many ways in which Read more
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 6 weeks since I last blogged. I still need to write up a review on Plumbr, after seeing it in action at Devoxx, but to ease me back into the writing game, here’s a Read more
Devoxx 2012 has been and gone, and it was a fantastic few days in Antwerpen. I caught up with a lot of great people, made the acquaintance of even more and saw some superb presentations (plus a couple of duds, Read more
I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t, and I’m pretty sure there isn’t a meetup group for fans of it. Outside of code that I write for Read more
In the Play! documentation, several flavours of functional testing are mentioned, including starting a HTTP server for the duration of the test – this is very useful for testing web services. In code, this looks like import static play.test.Helpers.*; … Read more
The 3rd of October saw the Belgian Play! Framework User Group hold its first coding dojo and overall, it was a success. It’s the first time I’ve been involved in the organisation of anything like this, although the vast majority Read more
The Belgian Play! Framework User Group is holding its first dojo on Wednesday, and I’m helping to implement the reference application. We’re using Twitter as a communication point, and one of the best (the best?) Twitter API for Java is Read more