A few months ago, I attached a new, fresh whiteboard to the wall in my office and filled it with a lot of post-it notes. I put all the stuff that I had to do on post-its. A real mess. That was my shiny new Personal Kanban board, as Jim Benson describes it in his [...]
Limited WIP Society Köln in Gründung

Mein geschätzter Kollege Michael Mahlberg und ich gründen gerade einen Ableger der Limited WIP Society, und zwar in Köln. Dort wollen wir allen, die sich für Lean Product Development mit Methoden wie Kanban interessieren, ein Forum für den Gedankenaustausch geben. Auf Grouply finden Sie die Homepage der Gruppe – dort können Sie auch selbst beitreten [...]
Grails support for the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is gaining attention these days. No wonder that the Grails web framework will offer support for the resource description format RDF, or RDFa to be more precise. A new plugin can generate this format for you. A quote from the developers: The RDFa plug-in allows you to expose relevant parts of the [...]
Taxonomies for Grails domain classes
Did you ever want to put the instances of your domain classes into user-defined categories? Something like tags but more structured and maybe hierarchical? Good news today: Grails has a plug-in for this purpose – it is called the taxonomy plug-in. The developers of this plug-in say that it allows you to apply arbitrary hierarchical categorisation [...]
Test data for Grails integration tests
When you write an integration test for a Grails app, you will likely want to have a clean situation with reproducible test data in your database before the test actually starts. Enter the Fixtures Plugin for Grails. This plugin helps you to define a fixture, that is a defined set of data used for testing. [...]

