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14 Apr, 2009

Groovy and Bash – can scripting get much easier?

Posted by: TheKaptain In: Development

The ability to execute pretty much any bash statement embedded in a Groovy script is great, don’t get me wrong, but with the advent of Grape – and provided that you’re an Ivy/Maven user – adding the abilities of just about any Java library to your scripting language is easy. So what does Groovy add […]

08 Apr, 2009

Griffon SwingX Fest testing

Posted by: TheKaptain In: Development

This is the third installment of my Griffon SwingSet experiment. If you’re coming late to the party (and would like to know just what the heck I’m talking about) you can catch up by reading this and this. So the SwingX demo has 3 sliders that affect integer values on the JXBusyLabel. Using the Groovy […]

01 Apr, 2009

The first two chapters of Griffon In Action

Posted by: TheKaptain In: Development

Documentation up until now has been sparse to be sure, but judging by the first two chapters of the MEAP for Griffon in Action, this book is going to be worth every penny. I’ve experimented a bit with Griffon a bit lately, but still being somewhat of a Groovy noob, I don’t think that the […]