SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

Time marches on relentlessly

Posted by: Andres Almiray on 05/25/2010
This blog is now 4 years old. The following 12 entries are the most viewed during that period. It is interesting to see that while most of the post written have to do with Griffon or Groovy there are also high ranking views related to JavaFX and Scala.
  1. 11/Jan/10 Groovy & Scala: a tale of two JVM languages
    This is a reprint of an article published in GroovyMag. It shows how both languages can cooperate with each other.
  2. 26/Nov/09 Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy - Part I
    Another GroovyMag. article reprint. This is the first of a series of articles about Groovy's SwingBuilder and eventually, Griffon
  3. 26/Dec/09 Griffon: Beyond Swing
    First hint about the multi-toolkit capabilities of Griffon 0.3
  4. 06/Sep/09 Groovy vs Scala...
    Qualified by many as a 'bait link', this post announces the publication of the Groovy/Scala article published in GroovyMag (the same one sitting at #1). Still, looks like many expected a mud bath between Groovy and Scala *le sigh*.
  5. 10/Jun/09 Another look at FxBuilder + Griffon
    Fueled by the last JavaOne, got into JavaFX once more and updated FxBuilder.
  6. 01/May/08 Json-lib & Hibernate: tips and hints
    A popular entry from 2 years back! Having trouble serializing hibernated POJOs to JSON? Have a look at some of this tips then.
  7. 07/Dec/09 Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy - Part IV
    Final part of the series. this article introduces Griffon by means of a simple example that goes beyond the DemoConsole.
  8. 30/Nov/09 Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy - Part II
    Detailed explanation of the builder life cycle and a few of SwingBuilder's sibling builders.
  9. 03/Dec/09 Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy - Part III
    Binding options in SwingBuilder are discussed.
  10. 04/Dec/08 Some JavaFx/Java/Groovy examples
    First foray into JavaFX/Groovy right after Sun announced the availability of JavaFx 1.0 (the very same day!)
  11. 09/Jun/09 Griffon + GSQL mini howto
    A post inspired by Geertjan's Griffon experiments with wizards and databases. This howto is the beginning of what later became the first official plugin/addon added to Griffon.
  12. 16/Nov/09 Griffon: visualizing an object graph
    What do you get when you mix JUNG, ObjectGraphBuilder and Griffon? A graph visualizer app with little to none effort, honest!
And the three runner ups for this year are
  1. 10/Jun/09 Styling a Griffon application
    This post introduces CSSBuilder, a builder capable of applying CSS stles to Swing components. Sweet!
  2. 01/Feb/09 Griffon: Groovy & Scala working together
    The beginnings of the Griffon Scala plugin. This post exploits the ideas of #1 and puts them into practice.
  3. 31/Jul/09 Griffon: Clojure powered fractal
    Demonstrates the polyglot capabilities of a Griffon application that displays a fractal created by Clojure code.
Previous anniversaries: 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

About Andres Almiray

Andres Almiray

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

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