IntelliJ IDEA - Multiple DB Consoles (And Recovering Ones You Didn't Intend To Close)
I use the Database view/plugin in InelliJ IDEA quite often. It's actually become my "go to" editor for SQL scripts because of it's responsiveness...
Spark Java "Flash" Scope
One of the handiest features of Grails is the "flash" scope. The flash scope is "A temporary storage map that stores objects within the session for...
Realtime GPIO On Raspberry Pi With Spark Java And WebSockets
One of the cooler things about the Spark Java framework is built in websocket support thanks to the embedded Jetty server. I've long been fascinated...
MongoDB via Morphia in Spark Java
The latest journey in my quest to see just how many new technologies and frameworks I can learn in one week involves Morphia. Morphia is a "Java ...
JavaLite ActiveJDBC For ORM In Spark Java
I've spent a lot of time on the blog lately talking about views in Spark Java applications. Rightfully so, as Views are the Turkey in any MVC sandwich...
Spark Java Views With Apache FreeMarker
In the last few posts I took a look at using Thymeleaf for view rendering and templating with Spark Java. Thymeleaf has it's advantages and disadvantages...
Thymeleaf - Passing Variables From Child To Layout
Just a quick update after my last post to clarify things a bit. I mentioned in that post my dismay regarding the inability to pass model variables...
Spark Java Views Using Thymeleaf - SiteMesh Like Layouts
In the last post we looked at how Thymeleaf handles reusable layouts. A reddit user enlightened me about an open source 'dialect' for Thymeleaf that...
Spark Java Views Using Thymeleaf - Layouts
In the last post we looked at plugging in Thymeleaf into a Spark Java application for view rendering. The concept was pretty simple: using the Thymeleaf...
Spark Java Views Using Thymeleaf
The next step in using Spark Java with Groovy that I would like to look at is getting data into a view. With Grails, we're used to using GSP pages...
Getting Started With The Spark Java Framework
I published a post last week showing how to use Grails to create a website on the Raspberry Pi. After some feedback and conversations about whether...
Remote Deployment For IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
I've been using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition on my personal machine to work with some of the demos that I've been using for my series on using Groovy...