Category: groovy
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Podcasts for Developers
Until I started to travel on a regular basis I haven’t been aware of the value and information that can be found audio podcasts for developers. I thought, “Come on, what can you learn from listening to a radio?”. Nevertheless, since I had to fulfill my time with something other than staring at empty space…
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Griffon eclipse support plugin
Recently I was playing with griffon which I used together with jung library to visualize binary decision diagrams. In this regard, I had to make several small projects. Since I do that in my spare time, at the moment I start a new project I forgot how I managed to integrate previous griffon project with…
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Groovy blob and mysql
In certain occasions e.g. when you want to save scrapped html page or just a specific part of it (e.g. div with its contents) the recommendation I found is to use the blob type and save xml document as binary stream. In groovy, this is achieved in a rather simple way: class Document { int…
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Groovy meliorates and dries
Dynamic languages are very popular at this time and you probably had insight into at least one of them (Ruby, Python, Groovy). If you are bound to Java platform the best way to “be dynamic” IMHO is to work with Groovy. Apart from the http://groovy.codehaus.org/ where you can find documentation, getting started examples etc. there…