The Kaptain on … stuff

Today was a pretty great day, I must say. I got a chance to work with the brand new Griffon framework and must say – the combination of clear MVC architecture, Grails style convention over configuration and already powerful plugin selection make it pretty sexy. The early support for cobertura code coverage and fest GUI […]

The Groovy and Grails scene has been busy lately, with new versions of both dropping within the last few weeks.  Seems like the perfect time to get familiar with both, so I’ve started building a new Grails application. I play cards with a bunch of friends fairly regularly and it would be nice to track […]

I was reading this blog post today and it occurred to me – my present employer has done all of this, and more, for its developers. 1. For my daily work I use a Macbook Pro with 3GB of memory and a 7200 rpm drive. It was the absolute top of the line when it was […]

I program primarily in Java, but I must admit I’m a bit of a fanboy when it comes to the Groovy language. The syntatic sugar helps reduce some of the overhead of doing what should be simple things in Java, like reading Files or parsing XML. In particular the additions to the Collections API make […]