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15 Mar, 2009

Fun day playing with new Stuff

Posted by: TheKaptain In: Development

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 […]

07 Mar, 2009

Playing with the new Grails :)

Posted by: TheKaptain In: Development

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 […]

08 Feb, 2009

My favorite new Groovy trick

Posted by: TheKaptain In: Development

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 […]