TIOBE Index for February 2012: Groovy is approaching the top 20, Clojure entered the top 100
It might be a coincidence but while classic (Visual) Basic is slowly going off radar, VB.NET is still gaining in popularity each month.... more »
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Groovy 1.8.6 released
The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.8.6. Groovy 1.8.6 is a maintenance release essentially,... more »
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Why I’ll never use Groovy on Grails
Why? Because it doesn’t exist. The framework is called Grails. Just Grails. Go to http://grails.org/and search the site. You won’t see... more »
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Copy Properties or how to Clone a Class to a different Class
How to copy all properties of one class to a different class.
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Algorithm of the Week: Data Compression with Prefix Encoding
Prefix encoding, sometimes called front encoding, is yet another algorithm that tries to remove duplicated data in order to reduce its... more »
Kotlin + Guice example
See how two great technologies can be used together
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The Monty Hall Problem and why you don't understand probability
A deceptively simple problem that has fooled even nobel prize physicists. It doesn't get any more counterintuitive than this. The only... more »
SOA example application
I have released an application demonstrating how SOA’s principles can be applied into a small project making use of EIP (Enterprise... more »
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Happy birthday Commodore 64
“Holly Crap, how old am I? I just became 30 this year! I have no wife, no money, but still many fans and people who love me, even if... more »
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Upgrading your app to Grails 2.0.0? Better wait for 2.0.1
Grails 2.0.0 is a major step forward for this popular and productive, JVM-based web framework. Even though I would advise against... more »
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Java is dead? 9 million devs disagree
Java is not dead…in fact, it’s got more than enough energy to kick your app in the butt. Too often, critics focus on niche issues and... more »
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Scala Collections: Expressivity and Brevity upgrade from Java
The talk refers to the underlying design of the collections API. Given the API features and scala syntactic capabilities it will help... more »
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My Top 9 Features from Grails 2.0
The post describes 9 features which the author found to be the best in the latest version of Grails, 2.0. The features discussed include:... more »
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Ajax Grails Server Page with ZK
A series of articles on how ZK can enhance the interactivity of Grails Server Page with Ajax. The second article focuses on how users can... more »
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The Best Groovy Inspections You’re Not Using
Static Code Analysis in Groovy has two major options: IntelliJ IDEA and CodeNarc. This post describes the best Groovy inspections in IDEA... more »
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Groovy DSL - A Simple Example
Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) have become a valuable part of the Groovy idiom. DSLs are used in native Groovy builders, Grails and... more »
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Neo4j on Heroku - Part One
On his blog Marko A. Rodriguez showed us how to make A Graph-Based Movie Recommender Engine with Gremlin and Neo4j. In this two part... more »
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Neo4j on Heroku - Part Two
We are picking up where we left off on Neo4j on Heroku – Part One so make sure you’ve read it or you’ll be a little lost. So far, we have... more »
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Case Study: Building the Stanisław Lem Google doodle
The Google homepage is a fascinating environment to code within. It comes with many challenging restrictions: particular focus on speed... more »
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Why Tradeshift uses Grails
When evaluating new frameworks to use, Grails might not get the attention it actually deserves, no matter if you actually choose to use... more »
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33rd Degree for Java Masters
“If I was to pick any single conference from Central or Eastern Europe, that would be inevitably this one.” or “Overall this was a time... more »
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Groovy, the Python of Java
Typing is a chore — let’s do less of it to code without sacrificing readability. That’s the Groovy way.
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Selecting top k items from a list efficiently in Java / Groovy
Comparison of implementations of selection algorithms for Java / Groovy
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Grails Database Queries – Criteria Builder vs. Where Queries
Before Grails 2.0 arrived, Grails offered 3 ways of doing a database query. Starting with Grails 2.0, there is another alternative:... more »
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