Category Archives: groovy

Grails – Render method & Markup builder

Posted on August 26, 2007 by peter

During Graemes’ demo of Grails at javasummercamp he briefly pointed out the fact that one can implicitly use the Groovy MarkupBuilder (Similar to the Markaby DSL for Ruby) within the render method of an action for generating markup. Which makes … Continue reading →

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Groovy and the safe dereference operator

Posted on August 17, 2007 by peter

When going through view code generated by Grails I noticed heavy use of the question mark operator when referencing properties. After browsing around I discovered that it is called the ‘safe dereference operator’ Sounds more complex then it is, it … Continue reading →

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IntelliJ IDEA 7m2: Groovy/Grails support

Posted on August 15, 2007 by peter

From the corner of my eyes I noticed something in the latest IntelliJ release: a Groovy and Grails plug-in. The screenshots on the Jetbrains website showing of Smart type inference, Cross-resolution between Groovy and Java classes and Smart code navigation … Continue reading →

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Grails – associations

Posted on August 13, 2007 by peter

After going through the Grails documentation I decided to get my hands dirty and actually try and build something. ‘Todo’ style applications aren’t too interesting, but quite useful to test basic stuff. Getting started After installing Grails I moved on … Continue reading →

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Battle of the Geeks: Groovy!

Posted on August 11, 2007 by peter

At the end of September Finalist will organize an event called: Battle of the Geeks. Main concept of the battle is to convince the audience of the usefulness coolness of the tool/framework which you are presenting. Initially I was asked … Continue reading →

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3 weeks of DIY

Posted on July 11, 2007 by peter

During my three week holiday I’ll be constructing a room and vestibule on our second floor. A new staircase, boiler and eventually a dormer will be fitted by contractors. Occasionally I’ll be posting pictures of the progress on my Flickr … Continue reading →

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Spring and scripting languages… don’t go together?

Posted on March 6, 2007 by peter

Today I had a look at using the excellent groovy scripting language to create a dynamic solution for determining the keys to flush in our distributed caching setup. Since determining which keys to flush when an object is updated/created/deleted is … Continue reading →

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