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Play 2 Framework and Secure Social Example Setup
If you want to add Authentication to a Play! Framework 2 project, Secure Social is the way to go. I had some problems installing it despite the documentation and examples. Here are my tips based on...
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I began having sporadic problems in my Play Framework 2.0.4 application where the attributes of referenced objects were null. Example: When getting a Contact object with ebean: Contact contact =...
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FoursquareProvider for SecureSocial and PlayFramework
Last weekend I discovered that I needed a Foursquare Provider for the popular Play Framework Plugin Secure Social — so I wrote one! The biggest challenge was that it is written in Scala, so I had to...
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Here it is, the Xing Oauth1 Provider for the Play Framework — Secure Social...
I wanted to try some things with XING, and since I have been using Secure Social with Play Framework alot recently, I decided to add a new provider to the Secure Social Project after seeing how easy it...
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Demo generating iOS Passbook Pass with passkit4j and Play! Framework
I recently stumbled across passkit4j with which it is not that hard to create a Passbook pass — assuming you have an Apple Developer Account, and can figure how to do the whole provisioning and adding...
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Using twitter4j with Play! Framework and Secure Social is this easy
During yesterday’s personal Hackathon, I started a project which I might introduce here sometime. But the coolest revelation was (again) how easy it was to get up and running. Create a new Play...
View ArticleMy Upgrade from Play! Framework 2.0.4 to 2.1.0 went smooth except for these...
Today I decided to upgrade from Play Framework 2.0.4 to the newly released 2.1.0. I followed their helpful guide: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.0/Migration Here is a list of the...
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Authenticating an Play! Framework Application via Oauth2 and Instagram using...
In an ongoing quest to make sure that I can easily start a Play! Framework 2.0 project and connect with another popular Social Website via their API, I have just created an Instagram Provider for the...
View ArticleHow to switch back and forth between Play! Framework Versions
When I first read about the Play Version Manager I first thought it was some sort of tool for versioning. When Play! Framework 2.1.0 came out, I finally realized that it was a tool for switching back...
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How to quickly start a Play! Framework Project and Deploy it in the Cloud
Jumpstart your Play! Framework 2.1 Java project, by checking out my project scaffold from GitHub: https://github.com/poornerd/playstartjava Demo running @cloudbees :...
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How deploy Play! Framework Apps with different configurations to Cloudbees
Have you ever wanted to deploy the same Application with multiple configurations to Cloudbees, without changing your environment variables each time while using the command line? I spent a ton of time...
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CRUD for Play! Framework 2
One of the main things I missed from Play 1.x is the CRUD Module. After reading posts on the forum about that one or more are in the works, I decided to check them out today. I found a few projects —...
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How to integrate the Aloha Wysiwyg Editor with Play! Framework
UPDATE: code checked in on github: https://github.com/poornerd/play-aloha I am constantly needing to update static content in Templates in my Play! Framework project, so I decided to integrate the...
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Wysiwyg Editing of Play! Framework Templates with the Aloha Editor
Ok, so it is only partial editing, but still this is an interesting step in the “no CMS” direction. What I have done is modified the example code which I posted on github last week for inline editing...
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How to Edit Messages in the Browser While Developing Play! Framework Templates
As a followup to my recent experiments to inline editing of content blocks while developing Play! Framework templates, I decided to focus on Messages this week. Messages are basically Resource Bundles...
View ArticleHow to spend less time waiting for Play! Framework to compile while coding
A colleague just pointed this cool tip out to me: play ~run If you enter “play help”, it says: “~ Executes the specified command whenever source files change.” So what this does — and how it saves you...
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Play Framework Tip for developing offline
This ended up being a useful tip from James Roper (@jroper) that I used recently when I was on vacation: from a Twitter Post: “Developing a Play app on a plane pro-tip: add offline := true to...
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How to compile and use a Play Framework 2 module with the source from github
Have you ever wanted to download the source of a Play Framework 2.0 module off of github and modify the source and test it? Or have you expected it to be in some repository but for one reason or...
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How to integrate Concordion in Play Framework and write acceptance tests in...
After starting to read “Specification by Example”, I wanted to have a go a writing acceptance tests for my Play Framework projects. I stumbled onto Concordion (http://www.concordion.org/), because it...
View ArticleHow to set the Java Version for Compiling a Play Framework Module
@jaliss and I were recently wondering how to make sure that a module was compiled with JSDK 1.6 after we had upgraded the Java Version on our Macbooks. Stackoverflow user mgregori just provided this...
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