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Guillaume Laforge02/12/08
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Learn all about Groovy and Grails at the 2GX conference, Reston, VA

If you want to learn everything about Groovy and Grails, get in touch with all the projects committers and contributors, and have a great time, you should definitely not miss the Groovy / Grails Experience that will take place in Reston, VA, USA --...

Rajmahendra Hegde02/12/08
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Groovy and Grails Series

Before starting, We need to see why another new tool? In my view, field like IT which is never satisfied with new innovation tools and applications in the modern technology, I am really satisfied with its development. I love innovations and welcome new...

Guillaume Laforge02/12/08
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A Groovy Kind of Love

It's funny, but before working on the Groovy project, there was a song I've always liked: A Groovy Kind of Love, by Phill Collins. Do you think it was premonitory? That I'd work on Groovy? And speaking of Groovy love... I've come across some nice love...

Steven Devijver02/12/08
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Higher-order functions with Groovy, part 3

In the first and second parts I've talked about how closures work in Groovy, how they can be curried, how Java methods can be converted to closures and how closures can be converted to Java methods. In this last part I'll talk about two other aspects of...

Andres Almiray02/11/08
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Luke Daley: Groovy TextMate and more

Luke Daley is a newcomer to the world of Java, thanks to Groovy, andthe maintainer of the Groovy and Grails bundles for TextMate (apopular text editor for Mac OS X). Learn more about the Groovy/Grails on TextMate, Luke's thoughts on Groovy and his own groovy...

Andres Almiray02/10/08
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MetaProgramming with Groovy II: ExpandoMetaClass

On the second part of this series learn about ExpandoMetaClass, a special MetaClass that will let you update and tweak the behavior of classes in runtime.

Andres Almiray02/10/08
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GraphicsBuilder Tutorial II: Outlines & Shapes

Second part of the GraphicsBuilder tutorial series, this time outlines and the missing shapes from the previous part are shown.

Dave Cherry02/10/08
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Charting with JFreeChart in Groovy.

I’ve started looking into the possibility of wrapping up JFreeChart to make it a little groovier. I know there’s no end of web packages for graphing, but what if you don’t want to transmit sensitive data across the internet? What if you don’t want the...

Steven Devijver02/09/08
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Jeff Brown: Grails 1.0 and Beyond

Jeff Brown is long time Groovy and Grails committer. He recently joined G2One, the Groovy and Grails company. Learn more about the Grails 1.0 release, the Grails road map and Jeff's thoughts on the Groovy and Grails communities. Enjoy.

Matt Raible02/09/08
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Reviews: Getting Started with Grails, Rails for Java Developers and Groovy Recipes

Two weeks ago, I mentioned a number of books I was hoping to read to get up to speed on Rails and Grails quickly. Over the last two weeks, I was able to polish off three of these (listed in order of reading): Getting Started with Grails Rails for Java...

Václav Pech02/08/08
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Swinging in Groovy is fun

There are several ways to create UI in Swing. Some people prefer writing the code by hand, some use graphical Swing designers instead. Groovy adds another possibility - the SwingBuilder. Leveraging the power of Groovy builders the SwingBuilder allows you to...

Scott Davis02/07/08
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Graeme Rocher on Grails with Scott Davis (Podcast)

In the first Groovy Zone podcast, Scott Davis took a few minutes to chat with Graeme Rocher, the lead developer of the popular Grails framework heading up the...

Steven Devijver02/07/08
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easyb: Introducing Conversational Unit Tests for Java

Andrew Glover is co-author of Groovy in Action and wrote a test framework called easyb. The new framework promotes a more "conversational" approach to unit testing. DZone's Steven Devijver caught up with Andrew to hear his thoughts on Test-Driven...

Steven Devijver02/07/08
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Groovy & Eclipse: Lead Plugin Developer Speaks

Edward Povazan, project lead of the Groovy Eclipse plugin project and long-time Groovy user, speaks with DZone about the status of the plugin, the planned support for Grails in Eclipse and other future improvements.

Václav Pech02/06/08
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Automate Grails App Builds with TeamCity

The Grails framework has reached maturity with the recent release of its 1.0 version. As Grails is becoming increasingly popular and more and more enterprise applications based on Grails started appearing, I believe that Grails developers deserve the same...