Practical writing on Java, Spring, AI, and the craft of software engineering.

If you're building with Java and Spring (or trying to figure out where AI fits into your development workflow) you're in the right place. I write practical, beginner-friendly deep dives on Spring Boot, Spring AI, and software engineering fundamentals, collected here in chronological order.

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March 31, 2014· 7 min read

Grails: Generating links in your domain class

Grails: Generating Links in your Domain Class

February 25, 2014· 3 min read

Grails Spring Security Plugin - Logout postOnly setting

Grails Spring Security Plugin - Logout PostOnly Setting

Creating and testing your first Grails Tag Library

Invalid Date NaN, NaN· 10 min read

Creating and testing your first Grails Tag Library

Creating and testing your first Grails Tag Library

August 27, 2013· 6 min read

Grails MySQL Boolean Gotcha

Grails MySQL Boolean Gotcha

August 27, 2013· 2 min read

Grails Interactive Mode - USE IT

Grails Interactive Mode - USE IT

August 23, 2013· 1 min read

IntelliJ Spring Bean Injection Notification

IntelliJ Spring Bean Injection Notification

August 22, 2013· 4 min read

Groovy Ternary Operator

Groovy Ternary Operator

August 21, 2013· 9 min read

Groovy collections vs My Current Thought Process

Groovy collections vs My Current Thought Process

August 21, 2013· 4 min read

Writing SQL in a Grails Application

Writing SQL in a Grails Application