John's Blog

While maintaining some code recently, I came across what seemed to be some particularly evil code.  It was a service method that used a Grai...

Nice little script for parsing the Google Ceocoding Web Service. (Groovy 1.7.5) /** Simple Script to parse the google geocode web service ht...

A pretty decent bloke once said that " Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ".... and that is what I like about this idea; it...

Yesterday I was required to work on a branch of one of our projects and came across a little predicament : The branch had different plugin v...

If you are here investigating bigamy.... you have come to the wrong place.... We are actually going to have a quick once over on One-To-Many...

Hey... it's late... so lets keep this one short! (Update: check out this article too! ) I have taken it upon myself to get some re-usabl...

As you may know, we can add certain constraints to our Grails domains to ensure the integrity of our priceless data. Suppose we have a simpl...