Bling Freelancers - Get Rich or Freelance Trying
A freelancer is in the position of the rich snob, as we provide a service for money and we do not need to give employees a cut.
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The Evolution of Design: How 10 Popular Sites Looked 10 Years Ago
Let's go back 10 years and see just what the "Kings of the Internet" looked back then. Brace yourself.
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Grails: Using standalone GORM for testing
Recently I was stuck with persistence testing. I like to write simple unit tests and run them from my favorite IDE, but there was no luck with GORM... more »
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Grails Testing Alias to Rerun Failed Tests
Quick set of shell aliases to rerun only the grails tests that previously failed (or rerun all tests if there were no previous failures).
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Learning with Grails: Security, Extjs, REST, Spring Insight
Posting including a lot of good general information about using grails to explore authentication and authorization using the spring-security plugin... more »
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If Programming Languages Were Real Persons
What if programming languages were real persons like you and me? What if they were parts of families and had relations and affairs? Have you ever... more »
More Groovy Magic with Maven pom Files
Last time, I introduced some of the new Groovy support available in Maven 3, and looked at how you will be able to write your pom files in Groovy, or... more »
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How is Tellurium Data Driven Testing Implemented
Data Driven Testing is one of the most important features of Tellurium. This article will introduce some implementation details about it such as the... more »
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Alex Miller - Inside the Strange Loop
Alex Miller summarizes his experience of organizing and putting on the one-of-a-kind Strange Loop 2009 developer conference.
Starting out in Griffon: 1. Some Links
Griffon is a young open-source Java desktop framework, using Groovy as the main development language, and Model-View-Controller as the key development... more »
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Groovy Goodness: Invoke Methods Dynamically
In Groovy we can invoke a method with a name assigned to a variable. We use the GString notation to invoke the method with the variable name. We can... more »
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Application Window Fadeout with Griffon and Trident
Instead of sticking to his more practical application of the concept, I decided to add a little more bling and use Trident to implement a window... more »
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More Groovy magic with Maven 3 pom files
Last time, I introduced some of the new Groovy support available in Maven 3, and looked at how you will be able to write your pom files in Groovy, or... more »
Yet Another 2GX Wrap-up
Finally after more than a year of waiting and nagging, the second 2GX conference was held in New Orleans last week.
Groovy Goodness: Getting and Setting Properties
In Groovy we can set values for properties with a simple assignment using the = operator. Groovy will invoke the set for us. At first sight we might... more »
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Griffon 0.2 comes loaded
With [Griffon's 0.2] release comes a new an exciting feature called Addons. Addons are runtime plugins, as opposed to the currently existing buildtime... more »
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Java multiple class loaders issue
Why loading the same class using two class loaders is possible and can lead to some unexpected results.
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Create Amazing Wallpapers Or Design Concepts With These 30 Photoshop Tutorials
We present 30 photoshop tutorials for creating your own wallpaper or learning some nice PS tricks in these tuts. Combining some of the techniques used... more »
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Tellurium adds support for ReportNG for better test reporting.
TestNG reference project supports generating reports using ReportNG out of the box. ReportNG is a simple HTML reporting plug-in for the TestNG... more »
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GroovyBot - Developing a Groovy Google Wave Robot
Google Wave is a communication and collaboration tool developed by Google, which is currently in preview and available only to a limited number of... more »
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Post SpringOne / 2GX 2009: Slides and Source Code
Slides an source code from 2 presentations on Grails at SpringOne / 2GX: "GrailsUI Primer" and "Grails in the Wild"
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Groovy Goodness: Groovy SQL
Groovy has powerful SQL support to work with in our scripts and classes. It is all based on JDBC, but so much easier to code. For example to create a... more »
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Groovy Goodness: Optional Parenthesis
Groovy can make code more readable with small features like optional parenthesis. If a method contains at least one argument we can leave out the... more »
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Griffon 0.2 released
The Griffon team is happy to announce the release of Griffon 0.2. Griffon is a Grails like framework for writing RIAs on the JVM using Groovy. For a... more »
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Groovy Intentions in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition has a nice feature called intentions. Intentions offer a way to simplify our code. In our editor we can select an... more »
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