Don’t Repeat Anything == The Tower of Coupling Copy and Paste, it’s bad. We have this drilled into us as received knowledge. We must build abstractions to avoid copying code,…

I recently had a thought provoking exchange on Twitter with Luke Daley who is a Gradle developer, creator of the Ratpack web framework and all around awesome fellow. We were…

All Hail the Command Object This is a follow on to Simplicity in Web Architecture – Beware the Stateless Service In that article, I gave my opinion on the Stateless…

This is a response to a blog post by Peter Ledbrook on his blog In it he asks about the future of Grails (and links to a recent talk of…

Simplicity in Web Architecture – Beware the Stateless Service This article is related to my recent talk at the London Groovy/ Grails User Group which you can see at SkillsMatter…