Archive for November, 2009

Securing Grails Plugin Artifacts with Filters

So you’ve just installed the handy dandy Spring Security plugin (http://grails.org/plugin/acegi), which makes it incredibly easy to secure entire Grails controllers and/or controller actions with annotations, such as the following: This is enabled by turning on controller annotations in your SecurityConfig.groovy file: So all is now good in our project. We can secure either controllers [...]

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Pomodoro: The First Iteration

I spent about an hour last night reading through Francesco Cirillo’s e-book The Pomodoro Technique. Up until this point I knew the basics of the technique, but I really wanted to drill down and get the details. I won’t explain those here – visit http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ to get the lowdown. What I want to talk about [...]

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Hi, I’m Matt Stine, and I have technology ADD…

Yes, it’s true. I came to the realization that there is such a thing as TADD…technology attention deficit disorder. Ironically, I came to this realization while reading a sample chapter from the upcoming book from the Prags, Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus – Really Focus – for 25 Minutes? You see, it’s Pragmatic Programmer [...]

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