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...
2 replies - 1988 views - 02/12/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News
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...
2 replies - 3670 views - 02/12/08 by Steven Devijver in News
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...
0 replies - 2587 views - 02/11/08 by Andres Almiray in News
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.
0 replies - 5566 views - 02/10/08 by Andres Almiray in Articles
Second part of the GraphicsBuilder tutorial series, this time outlines and the missing shapes from the previous part are shown.
0 replies - 6998 views - 02/10/08 by Andres Almiray in Articles
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...
1 replies - 2735 views - 02/10/08 by Dave Cherry in News
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...
0 replies - 2923 views - 02/09/08 by Steven Devijver in News
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...
2 replies - 4013 views - 02/09/08 by Matt Raible in News
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...
1 replies - 7002 views - 02/07/08 by Steven Devijver in News
In part one I gave an overview of closures and currying, two features in Groovy that implement higher-order functions. Higher-order functions can be used in...
1 replies - 3328 views - 02/05/08 by Steven Devijver in News
Graeme Rocher just announced on the Grails mailing list the release of Grails 1.0. I'm very happy to announce this news here on Groovy Zone since more than 2...
5 replies - 6153 views - 02/05/08 by Steven Devijver in News
Things are moving quickly on the Groovy DSL side these days. Not only have I been lately discovering a new Groovy builder almost every day, I'm also continuing...
6 replies - 3810 views - 02/04/08 by Steven Devijver in News
In our previous installment,
we've discovered how Java and Groovy's syntaxes are so close that you can even cut and paste valid Java...
11 replies - 7536 views - 02/03/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News
I'll admit, higher-order functions sounds like link bait for over-achievers. Trust me, I didn't invent the term :-) A Higher-order function is a concept from...
6 replies - 7424 views - 02/03/08 by Steven Devijver in News
Drawing graphics with Java2D has never been an easy task, if it was we have probably seen by now a Flex killer app in Java (the fact that applets have a really...
4 replies - 11388 views - 02/02/08 by Andres Almiray in Articles
