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Did you get your GroovyMag yet?
Yes, yes, a minor blatant plug for GroovyMag here Current December issue has articles on building Swing apps with Groovy, developing iPhone-oriented apps with the iUI plugin, an article on GORM’s...
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Are traditional object models enough? Can we evolve usefulness in OO models?
Just a quick thought here after looking at someone’s code I just stumbled on. This person had a “isReadOnly()” method inside of a generic “set” method which would allow them to determine if a property...
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January GroovyMag out
The January 2009 issue of GroovyMag is out. Grab it now! This issue includes: Community News from Dave Klein Grails WebFlow walkthrough from Brian Doyle Regular Expressions with Groovy from Ted Naleid...
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Groovy and Grails training classes
GroovyMag has recently announced Groovy and Grails training classes. These are web-based and able to be taken anywhere you’ve got a computer with Flash and an internet connection. I’m excited about...
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Groovy and Grails presentation at Lexis Nexis
My friend Curtis Mitchell invited me to speak to some of the developers at Lexis Nexis about Groovy and Grails. I was honored to speak, but also slightly nervous. For some reason I’d got it in to my...
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Traveling around a bit – Denmark May 18, 19, 20
I’ve been in London most of the last week, and had a great time meeting up with people (DylanS and Sam from the Dojo project, Rajat from Yahoo, some locals putting on a minibarcamp, and others). I’ve...
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GroovyMag and JSMag issues
The August issues of GroovyMag and JSMag are both out. They’ve been out since earlier this month, but I didn’t publicize them here yet. GroovyMag‘s content this month includes Part I of building a...
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Learning new languages harmful?
After having spent much time with Groovy/Java, and a bit with Ruby and a bit with C#, I have a newer perspective on learning new programming languages. Much of my thoughts are summed up by this post...
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a dumb programming mistake
I had a couple of dumb development mistakes come and bite me in the butt this week, and I thought I’d share them here – well, at least one for now. Without going in to the type of data too much here –...
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Open Source LinguaFolio software project available
A couple of years ago I was asked to build a piece of software implementing the concepts of the LinguaFolio “formative assessment tool”. That’s education-speak for something that helps students and...
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Grails MySQL memory leak with Tomcat
I’ve been plagued with these for a while: SEVERE [ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]] org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.clearReferencesThreads The web application...
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grails configuration taglib
I sort of can’t believe something like this doesn’t exist, but I’ve not been able to find one (I’ll find it 10 minutes after posting this I bet!) package com.kimsal class ConfigTagLib { def...
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Grails configuration in views
I don’t know why it’s taken me this long to figure this out, but… injecting the Grails configuration object in to the view layer is pretty simple. In a Grails filter, make an ‘after’ handler like this:...
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Grails ckeditor full settings
Took me a while to find this, and I’m posting here primarily for my own memory, but hopefully this useful to some of you as well. <ckeditor:config var="toolbar_Custom"> [ { name: 'document',...
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