Using Stripe with Grails
How do you usually process credit cards in your web applications? There are obviously lots of options available and each has pros and cons. One that I am really starting to like though is Stripe. It...
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Using Stripe with Grails Continued
In my last post, I introduced using Stripe with Grails to process credit cards. I guess I should have waited to write that post though because today I made it a lot easier, ha! As of the 1.0.M6...
View ArticleJump Into Grails 2.0
Do you hate reading? Well today is your lucky day because instead of reading a post, you can watch my first ever Grails screen-cast! It’s definitely a little rough around the edges though and you’ll...
View ArticleGetting Groovy with CoffeeScript
Have you used CoffeeScript yet? I just started playing with it and so far I think it’s great! In this screencast, I walk through how to use CoffeeScript in a Grails 2.0 application by building a simple...
View ArticleAnother Adventure with Grails and CoffeeScript
It’s amazing how simple the jQuery libraries make complex front-end development. Then if you add in CoffeeScript, using jQuery is even better! In this screencast, I demonstrate creating a AJAX-enabled...
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Making Money with Grails
What’s more fun that building a Grails website? Building a Grails website that makes money of course, ha! Back in December, I wrote a couple posts about using Stripe with Grails to process credit cards...
View ArticleAdd Some PJAX to Grails
Have you used PJAX yet (PushState + AJAX = PJAX)? It’s a pretty slick way to make AJAX partial updates a lot better compared to the regular g:remoteLink tag. The primary benefits are you don’t break...
View ArticleGR8CONF US Hackathon
As you might have already heard, Target will be hosting a hackathon as part of the GR8CONF US 2013 conference! If you are not aware of GR8CONF US, it’s a technology conference focused on the Groovy...
View ArticleBuilding APIs with Grails
I have been developing some APIs with Grails lately as opposed to traditional web apps. I’m going to be giving a talk at GR8CONF US this summer about this topic too. So, I thought it would be fun to...
View ArticleGrails Asset Pipeline Plugin
This screencast provides an introduction to the Grails Asset-Pipeline plugin for managing and processing static assets like JavaScript and CSS. The Asset-Pipeline plugin is an alternative to the...
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