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
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
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
Hmm, another blog entry on the Play framework. You must be sooo surprised! Play allows you to suspend requests while doing heavy computation – this frees up your application to continue processing new requests, regardless of how long the computation Read more
I just re-read my previous post and thought to myself…huh? What’s the point in telling people who’ll probably never even read the blog to make sure they cache in order to improve performance? The answer came to me in a Read more
One of the most useful tools in my collection is the objectify-led library – http://www.objectify.be/objectify-led/ (full disclosure: I wrote it). It allows you to annotate fields in your classes with @Property and then bind information to them automatically. It also Read more
I needed to add content to the war directory/file that play generates via the “play war” command. The content varied from files added to the top level of the war (alongside WEB-INF) to customising WEB-INF/web.xml. Checking the core documentation, no Read more
I’m currently developing a play app that, according to the corporate policy, needs to be built by a Bamboo server and then deployed. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. The Bamboo server is running on Solaris, play requires python and getting python Read more
Summer is almost here, the days are long and my good lady wife and I have decided to sell our house here in England and move over to Belgium (my wife is Belgian) for the rest of our lives. Some Read more