Grails, Validation of Map on Domain Class
Grails has a bunch of can’d validators such as maxSize, blank, nullable and so forth. These are hard workers, they’ll check values, report errors which can easily be internationalized, and can even...
View ArticleGrails and UrlMappings.groovy
Doesn’t work… http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-6587 Yeah that right there is a major flaw that needs fixing ASAP. Can’t believe it’s still an issue at 1.3.7… I mean c’mon this totally breaks a ton...
View ArticleGo VIM Features (on os x)
Go is a very good programming language which has Ken Thompson‘s fingerprints all over it. If you are writing any system level applications it’s worth taking a look at. If you really dig Python’s clean...
View ArticleAdding Apt GPG Key When Using Ansible
I’m using Ansible to provision, setup, and manage a server. If you want to install MariaDb, Postgresql, and many other packages you will want to use the best source. Often this is source is provided by...
View ArticleLocust IO 0.6.2 Gevent 1.0rc2
When using the latest release of locust.io for testing our site we hit a few gevent related bugs. The author of gevent says upgrade to the new version which uses libev over libevent. Since 0.6.2 locust...
View ArticleIntro to Metrics
I have been doing a lot of work lately to generate volumes of metrics. Why bother you might ask. I will tell you. If you do not measure what is going on with your resources (applications and machines...
View ArticleAmazon Linux + OpenJDK + Collectd Java Plugin
This took a bit of work to figure out. First off you need to install the jdk devel package, since that is where the header files will be. The header files are of course required to compile the java...
View ArticleDeveloping LogStash Grok Config
LogStash is a nice little app for being able to consolidate and search on logging files. Although it wraps up a lot of functionality it still requires some pretty in depth knowledge to properly use....
View ArticleVincent and Vega Install on OS X (Mountain Lion)
This is a powerful combo for rapidly prototyping visualizations. I recently was introduced via a tweet; I read http://wrobstory.github.io/2013/10/mapping-data-python.html which while not having the...
View ArticleMavericks Upgrade, MacPorts to Homebrew
After upgrading to OS X Mavericks I found I needed to reinstall a few things. I have used MacPorts for many years now and it has been a mostly positive experience. When I switched gigs 9 or so months...
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