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3 Core Principles from 1998

Posted by: Ken Sipe on December 31, 2009

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Pragmatic Manager Newsletter Posted

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 31, 2009

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GroovyMag Plugin Corner: Feeds Plugin

Posted by: Dave Klein on December 26, 2009

The following post is a reprint of the Plugin Corner article for the January 2009 issue of GroovyMag. You can find this and other past issues at http://groovymag.com.   more »

Griffon: Beyond Swing

Posted by: Andres Almiray on December 26, 2009

If you've followed the Griffon news in the last 12 months you may be aware that Griffon is a fun and rapid desktop/rich application development framework inspired by Grails; that there are more than 40 released plugins and that polyglot programming   more »

Incremental Funding Article Up

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 24, 2009

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Griffon: plugin updates II

Posted by: Andres Almiray on December 17, 2009

These are the latest additions to the growing list of Griffon plugins: Swingx-ws 0.1 - embed a Map widget on your Griffon application. The jxmapKit node is configured by OpenStreetMap support by default.   more »

Intellij 9 and Gradle

Posted by: Ken Sipe on December 14, 2009

One of the hidden gems of the Intellij 9 release is it's support for Gradle. Some of the information on the web is out of date and some features are not intuitive. This post will detail some of the nuances and follow it up with a wish list for the next   more »

Fixing One Problem Promotes the Next

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 11, 2009

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Griffon: plugin updates

Posted by: Andres Almiray on December 10, 2009

Update: Hamlet reminded me of two other recent additions to the plugin list: font-jiggler and fast-translate. These are the most recent updates to the (growing) number of Griffon plugins: gfx-builder 0.2.   more »

“Ideal” Team Size and Ratios

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 9, 2009

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Pomodoro Technique Illustrated - A Brief Review

Posted by: Dave Klein on December 8, 2009

If you would like to be more productive and you haven't looked into the Pomodoro technique, you need to get a hold of the new Pragmatic Bookshelf book, Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, by Staffan Nöteberg.I had heard about the Pomodoro technique, and knew   more »

Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy - Part IV

Posted by: Andres Almiray on December 7, 2009

The following article appeared on Groovymag's fourth issue (February 2009). It is the fourth of a four-part series on Groovy and Swing applications. Be sure to check out Groovymag for more information on Groovy, Grails, Griffon and other GR8 technologies   more »

More Trouble with Java and Apple

Posted by: Ken Sipe on December 5, 2009

Well the latest update for Java from Apple came through recently. Destroying all in its path..   more »

Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy - Part III

Posted by: Andres Almiray on December 3, 2009

The following article appeared on Groovymag's third issue (January 2009). It is the third of a four-part series on Groovy and Swing applications. Be sure to check out Groovymag for more information on Groovy, Grails, Griffon and other GR8 technologies (G   more »

GroovyMag Plugin Corner: Testing

Posted by: Dave Klein on December 1, 2009

In the December 2008 issue of GroovyMag, I covered the Grails Testing plugin. This plugin provided the new Grails 1.1 testing features to 1.   more »