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
In a previous post, I talked about how a projector failure at the 010DEV event resulted in the presentation using laptops, smartphones and tablets to display the slides. One of the problems here, as noted by speaker Trisha Gee, is 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
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
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
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