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Posted 2012-09-25 23:57:00.0
Originally submitted at O’Reilly
Best Practices for Experienced Grails Developers
Programming Grails
Excellent look under the hood of Grails
By Ken Kousen from Marlborough, CT on 9/25/2012
5out of 5
Pros: Accurate, Helpful examples,
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Posted 2012-07-06 16:40:00.0
A few years ago I remember seeing a blog post by a person interviewing potential new developers. He said that when the prospect featured Java prominently on their resume, he would make sure to give them a programming test that would be easy to solve in
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Posted 2012-06-16 13:16:00.0
I’ve been working on a presentation about interesting features in Groovy, and I came up with an example that I like but is probably too long to do in the available time, so I thought I’d show it here. The idea is to illustrate how any class
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Posted 2012-06-07 21:29:00.0
This week I was at a client site that was about as locked down as any I’ve seen. Personally I find that incredibly short-sighted on the part of the company, but it’s always easier to say no, I suppose.
While it was annoying enough to set up
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Posted 2012-05-09 00:18:00.0
I’ve been doing a lot of introductory Groovy presentations lately, and an issue keeps coming up that I feel I have to address. I’ve had to think hard about how to do this, though, because I don’t want to be misunderstood. I’m pro
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Posted 2012-03-06 01:08:00.0
I’ve been working with groovlets for years and recently had to dig into them in some detail, and that lead me to a situation I’m simultaneously very pleased and rather horrified about.
The appeal of groovlets is both their simplicity and th
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Posted 2012-01-13 00:25:00.0
I love teaching Groovy to existing Java developers, because they have such a hard time holding back Tears Of Joy when they see how much easier life can be. Today, though, I did a quick demo that resulted in a line of Groovy that was so amusing I had to
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Posted 2012-01-02 14:17:00.0
I finished revising the testing chapter in Making Java Groovy (the MEAP should be updated this week), but before I leave it entirely, I want to mention a Groovy capability that is both cool and easy to use. Cool isn’t the right word, actually. I h
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Posted 2011-12-12 22:03:00.0
Recently I saw a post by someone (I think it was @jbarnette, but it was retweeted to me) suggesting that there should be some alternate log levels, like fyi, omg, or even wtf. I thought that was pretty funny, but then it occurred to me I could probably
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Posted 2011-12-06 22:05:00.0
I try to keep up with developments in the Groovy and Grails worlds. I really do. I follow most of the core team members on Twitte
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