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Freedom(TM)
Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on January 31, 2010
Freedom (TM) is Daniel Suarez’s followup to one of my favorite books of 2009 – Daemon. Required reading for last year’s Hackers B and B, Daemon is a geek friendly book that includes a main character using a perfectly realistic SQL attack more »
Griffon: the Quickly connection
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 28, 2010
The following is but a preview of the capabilities exposed by the Griffon Gtk plugin. Ubuntu's Quickly is a desktop application framework inspired by Rails. It lets you build Gtk+Python applications in a snap (is there any doubt that a new breed of deskto more »
Groovy and Grails in The Gateway City
Posted by: Dave Klein on January 27, 2010
On January 5th, the Gateway Groovy Users had their 2010 kick-off meeting. The turn-out was amazing. When we were discussing the plans to get the group going again (after a 6 month hiatus), we thought we might be able to get our attendance numbers up to more »
Omnivore’s Dilemma
Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on January 22, 2010
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals has been on my reading list for quite some time now and over the holidays I finally got around to ordering it – as my first foray into the world of the Kindle. Yes, my dad came through in more »
Catching My Breath: Many Media Opportunities for You
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 22, 2010
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Artifactory as Training Labs Provisioning Platform
Posted by: Baruch Sadogursky on January 18, 2010
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Codemash 2.0.1.0: the aftermath
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 17, 2010
As I'm sitting comfortably in my work chair at home going through yet another Griffon experiment I can't help to recall what just happened at Codemash 2.0.1. more »
Griffon: toolkit diversity examples
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 17, 2010
The following screenshots and snippets show a simple Griffon application running on different UI toolkits: Swing, Gtk, Pivot and SWT. I must apologize up front for not showing a JavaFX example (yes, Griffon does JavaFX too!) as the latest version of the more »
Still Time to Reserve Your Spot for “3 Crucial Factors…”
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 15, 2010
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Groovy & Scala: a tale of two JVM languages
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 11, 2010
The following article appeared on Groovymag's September 2009 issue. There's been plenty of electronic ink devoted to fueling the wars between JVM languages, as some still claim to be the successors to Java's throne (the king is not dead by the way!) more »
Soaring Griffons
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 8, 2010
The Griffon team has just released versions 0.2.1 and 03-BETA-1 of the Griffon fram more »
IDEA 9, Gradle and Eating Your Own Dogfood
Posted by: Ken Sipe on January 5, 2010
After reading the comment on a post a few weeks ago regarding Intellij 9 and Gradle, I had to laugh. Having worked on open source projects for 15+ years and presenting at countless conferences and user groups, I have stated roughly the same comment count more »
The Backchannel
Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on January 3, 2010
It’s a new year and one of my resolutions is to post more – and to write up my thoughts on the books I read throughout the year. Looking at my Recent Reads page, it’s obvious I’ve let that lag a bit… With that in mind here is more »
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