Archive for December, 2009
Why I’m not using Groovy at work
A disclaimer: this blog is based on my personal failures with getting Grails accepted in our company. So, no, this is not the holy grail into dropping your EJB, Struts or Java toolkit to get groovy with Grails, but maybe you can learn something on how NOT to do it, and post some comments on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 12 so far )Groovy 1.7 Power Assert
I already mentioned this in my previous post, but I wanted to go a little bit deeper on this: the new Groovy Power Assert (and no, let’s not call is GPA). Groovy Power Assert makes assertions quite more powerful. The best way to demonstrate is ofcourse by example. When running the following code in Groovy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Gr8 conference in Denmark, 2010
At the 19th and 20th of May 2010,the GR8 conference will be held. From the website: “The GR8 Conference is an affordable conference dedicated to the Groovy dynamic language, the Grails web framework, the Griffon Swing framework, and other great technologies — hence the pun and code name GR8.”. The agenda is not officially known [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Groovy @Delegate annotation
Groovy 1.7 provides some nice new annotations. One of those annotations is the @Delegate. What it essentially does, is providing the methods of the Delegate to the class using the Delegate. This is best explained by a small example: This works really nice. The Manager now delegates the call for doWork() to the Employee. This [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Switching from IntelliJ to SpringSource Tool Suite
A small disclaimer: I’m a big fan of IntelliJ. In every project I’m on, I use IntelliJ, and it has happened quite often that people get interested in the product, and decide to switch. However, because of some changes in IntelliJ 9 regarding the non-visibility of module dependencies (a feature any IDE has, including IntelliJ [...]
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