Product companies have evolved over the last few years. While some years back, the focus was on going to market with the best features, the game has shifted to user experience today! With multiple products launching similar functionalities, it is very difficult to stand out against the competitors with features alone. It is the intuitive...
AngularJS, Front End Development
AngularJS is a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web application framework which is quickly gaining traction among companies to build intuitive and engaging front end. AngularJS development plays a significant role in front-end product engineering. Unlike other frameworks, Angular gives you a certain degree of freedom when writing...
We recently upgraded to Grails 2.3 and found some pleasant features in the rewritten Data Binding. This raised my interest to look further into what is new and found some interesting things that could be useful: We can create a global setting for the dataBinding of the dates using the following setting in...
Data binding is the technique of binding two data sources to maintain the synchronization of data which in reference to grails stands for binding incoming request parameters onto the properties of an object or entire graph of objects. These methods allow user to write clean and shaping code without littering the script and data with lots...
Recently, I learnt something very new e.g. Knockout.js. It is quite a advanced form of javascript. It just simplifies the structure of the javascipt in your application. It basically follows MVVM pattern(Model View View Model). It is quite fast and easy to use as comparison to jquery. Some of it's key features are :- 1. Declarative...
One feature that I really like in Grails 2.0 is action arguments databinding. While reading more about it I also found a nice grails.web.RequestParameter annotation. When you know something you always find its use case. In my recent project I need to take radius and height as params for creating a cylinder so my action looks like [java] ...
The other day, Farid came with an interesting problem of binding a Time String to java.sql.Time. We straight away found the answer in using a CustomTimeEditor and registering it using a CustomPropertyEditorRegistrar bean. We were able to come arrive at this solution, thanks to this StackOverflow thread. This set me thinking into using...
Recently, I was stuck with a scenario where I was trying to bind a list of objects in my controller. While trying the way as suggested in the grails docs I was getting some weird IndexOutOfBoundException. Luckily I found a good solution on the grails mailing list:...