It’s ok to wet yourself every once in awhile
Dan North, the veritable progenitor of behavior driven development (or BDD), recently blogged about unnecessary DRYness (meaning don’t repeat... more »
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Don't call it a static or dynamic typed language!
I don't think the use of statically typed or dynamically typed language is particularly useful or informative. I think a much better term is... more »
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Groovy Metaprogramming - Adding Behavior Dynamically
I've been fascinated with languages like Ruby and Groovy ever since being exposed to their dynamic capabilities. I remember attending a No Fluff Just... more »
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GraphicsBuilder: Substance based filters
bloid 
via jroller.com
Continuing with the Substance related additions, it is now possible to use Fractal Flames as texture filters. I was very impressed by Kirill's demo on... more »
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Closures for Java
dan via barneyb.com
Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of... more »
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Don't call it a static or dynamic language!
Well this one guy asked me a standard question, 'what are the advantages and disadvantages of statically typed versus dynamically typed languages?'... more »
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GraphicsBuilder: More Shapes!
bloid via jroller.com
Kirill has been busy lately updating Substance with new features, a recent post on his blog shows button shapers in action. Suddenly realized that... more »
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Taking JavaFX head-on: Java SwingBuilder 0.1.RC1 is here!
0.1 Release Candidate 1 for the Java SwingBuilder project. Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring dynamic language-type productivity to Java Swing... more »
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Groovy / Grails added into standard distribution of Netbeans
The Groovy/Grails support has been added to the standard distribution of NetBeans. You can test it in the nightly build. Yes, that means that NetBeans... more »
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State Diagram to Grails Webflow
A short tutorial on taking a model of a pageflow and turning it into a grails webflow.
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Using GORM in a Desktop Application
bloid via jweldin.com
In this post I will demonstrate one way to use GORM (the Grails ORM) in a desktop application.
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JSyntaxPane is born
JSyntaxPane v0.1 is a new Apache Licensed project to provide simple Syntax Highlighting to a Java Swing EditorPane. Simple to use and extend. Out of... more »
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GWT Grails Tutorial
A tutorial showing how do develop a Grails application with a GWT UI.
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Rethinking the traditional DAO pattern
The DAO pattern as it was authored (and implemented) back in the day is heavy, man; however, by applying a bit of Spring (or some other IOC framework)... more »
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Grails YUI DataTable example
After I quit looking into the Ext JS library because of the license problems, I wanted to use another AJAX framework which comes bundled with nice... more »
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Groovy Sparklines
Everyone loves sparklines, and if you want to build them using Groovy, here’s some code that I took from a fabulous example in JRuby, and modified.
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Java SwingBuilder : finally a 0.1 Beta release
Initial 0.1 Beta release for the Java SwingBuilder project. Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring dynamic language-type productivity to Java Swing... more »
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Groovy Snippets
Here are some fragments of Groovy code that I really enjoyed writing:
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Comparing Closures in Java, Groovy and Scala
On Paul's return from JavaOne this year, we spoke about Neal Gafter's Closures Cookbook talk. From what I understood, this was a look at the BGGA... more »
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Comparing closures in Java, Groovy and Scala
On Paul's return from JavaOne this year, we spoke about Neal Gafter's Closures Cookbook talk. From what I understood, this was a look at the BGGA... more »
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Grails at LinkedIn (Brian Guan)
It’s been more than 6 months since the Grails community learned that LinkedIn , an online network of professional contacts, has been using Grails... more »
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Your Grails domain class has more properties than you think!
But you probably already knew that - things like ‘id’, ‘version’ and ‘log’ properties are added to every Grails domain class by the framework and are... more »
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LinkedIn and Grails
The first blog post of many detailing how LinkedIn uses Grails for their website.
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Java, Groovy & Scala: side to side 2
Second part of the series, (first part here). Thanks a lot to Daniel Spiewak who took the time to expand the topics presented about Scala. Without... more »
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Why so quiet, Glen? "Grails In Action" is why...
This blog has been appallingly quiet over the last few weeks, and there's a simple reason for that: I'm hard at work on "Grails In Action" for... more »
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