Archive for the ‘groovy’ Category

One week with WhenWorksForYou.com

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Last week I launched http://www.whenworksforyou.com, a new Grails website that lets you coordinate schedules with other people to find the best date for your next event. Our first week provided lots of great feedback from users. One of the biggest gripes was not being able to subscribe to ...

Learn to create your own Grails plugin with GroovyMag

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

The February issue of GroovyMag is out and has some great articles - including one on how to create a plugin for Grails written by yours truly. You can download the issue from the GroovyMag website. Enjoy!

DevJam Presentation on Groovy/Grails

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

This past week I presented on Groovy/Grails to a group of developers here in Minneapolis. Afterwards we had a panel discussion (fishbowl style) and dove into a wide array of topics ranging from dynamic vs. static typed languages, when to consider using Groovy/Grails and when NOT to. It ...

Vote for better Cobertura support in Groovy

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Luke Daley pointed out that there's an open issue on the Groovy task list that would help with better Cobertura support for Groovy: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY-3118 Cobertura support is already pretty good, but there are some cases where coverage doesn't quite show up at 100% when it should. Go set up a profile, login, and ...