User stories are a lightweight mechanism for gathering and verifying user requirements on Agile projects. Unfortunately, it is easy to lose the context of stories. Find out how techniques from user-centered design (UCD) can help avoid this problem.
When integrated, Agile software development and User-Centered Design (UCD) allow development teams to extract the right information from their users, to verify assumptions, and to validate design decisions.
Template engines have long been the de-facto standard for rendering views in Java web development. Learn why templates are far from ideal and how Groovy builders provide a literate solution for bringing view rendering back into your code.
Once you have built a Grails project, how do you deploy it? Learn how to use Groovy builders, filters, and tags to deliver a Grails project. Along the way you'll delve into AJAX and deploy a Grails application in Tomcat.
Need to clear out the clutter of your Java web development? Say hello to coding by convention with Grails.
Rather than modifying your Log4J configuration and then redeploying the correct code version with the modified logging level, you can dynamically set the Log4J logging level over each node in a Tomcat cluster with JMX.
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