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Andres Almiray02/27/08
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Danno Ferrin: Groovy on the desktop does matter

Danno Ferrin is a member of the Groovy Swing team. His contributions have made programming Swing with Groovy a better experience. Learn about his work on SwingBuilder and Grape. Enjoy! [note: typos are Danno's signature, not errors :-)]

Meera Subbarao02/26/08
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Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java

Groovy's major plus point is its seamless integration with Java. I was attracted to Groovy mainly becuase you can mix and match Groovy with Java. If you attended the 2GX conference last week in Reston, VA you will have definitely attended Scott Davis's...

Andres Almiray02/26/08
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GraphicsBuilder Tutorial III: Paints & Colors

Third part of the GraphicsBuilder tutorial series, now it is the turn to demonstrate how you can apply colors and paints (flat colors and gradients) to shapes and outlines, even borders, to your Java2D drawings.

Andres Almiray02/24/08
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2GX Impressions

The reports from 2GX are starting to pour in, here are some links you may find useful:

Václav Pech02/22/08
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Automate Grails App Code Coverage Reporting with TeamCity - Part 3

We'll finish the short series on continuous integration of Grails applications with TeamCity today. Last time we talked about enabling unit and integration tests, this time we'll collect code coverage reports with Cobertura.

Steven Devijver02/21/08
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Reporting From the Groovy/Grails Experience

I'm sitting in Scott Davis' session "Real World Grails" on the first day of the Groovy & Grails Experience organized by No Fluff Just Stuff. Scott's been busy today; he did a keynote after lunch.

Mats Henricson02/20/08
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Groovy (and Ruby) Only Solves Half the Problem

It is with some dismay I've been reading the latest Groovy discussions on Javalobby. I've spent quite some time learning Scala, so it bothered me a bit that I minded another competing language a spot in the limelight. Why would I care? To me as a consultant,...

Andres Almiray02/20/08
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Russel Winder: Revamp your builds with Gant

Russel Winder has been Professor at UCL and KCL, analyst, consultant, trainer and author. Among other things he has done research on parallel object-oriented programming (Solve, UC++, EuropaC++, etc.), after all he has a very strong Math background as a...

Andres Almiray02/18/08
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James Williams on Groovy Swing

James Williams is a member of the Groovy Swing team. He is responsible for getting SwingXBuilder into shape, a builder for Swingx components, as a project inside Google's Sumer of Code 2007. Enjoy!

Steven Devijver02/18/08
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Dynamic Typing vs Dynamic Language Explained

I've just finished reading a very interesting post on the virtues of static typing compared to dynamic typing. It took me some time to get my head round the Ruby, Python, OCaml and Haskell code examples. Yet I managed to draw some conclusions based in this...

Steven Devijver02/16/08
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Ola Bini says: Don't Say Groovy is Like Java

On Ola Bini's blog you'll find this: If you're building an application and chooses to use Groovy for this instead of Java, isn't the reason that you're doing that the fact that you expect Groovy to give you something Java does not? And if that's the case,...

Steven Devijver02/14/08
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Martin Adamek: Building Groovy & Grails Support for NetBeans IDE

Martin Adamek is a Sun employee and works on the Groovy plugin for NetBeans IDE. In this interview he talks about the current status of the plugin, how he piggybacks on the JRuby plugin and how the community could help out. Enjoy.

Jason Weden02/13/08
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Groovy Job Availability Climbs Significantly

Granted I'm painting with broad brushstrokes here, but here are two job websites which amalgamate job listings from multiple other websites on the net. You can use them to do trend analysis. Here are graphs of the trends for the "java" keyword...

Václav Pech02/13/08
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Automate Grails App Tests with TeamCity - Part 2

As I showed in my previous post, TeamCity can build Grails applications for you, while you keep coding, relax or sleep. We talked about the command-line runner, which executes Grails commands through the command line interface. Today I'm going to show you how...

Steven Devijver02/13/08
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Groovy will replace the Java language as dominant language

Hear me out. In 2 to 3 years from now there we will see strong indications that Groovy is replacing the Java language as the dominant language on the JVM. Actually outnumbering the Java language will be very hard, given its 10+ years of history. But the trend...