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Time marches on relentlessly
Posted by: Andres Almiray on May 25, 2010
This blog is now 4 years old. The following 12 entries are the most viewed during that period. It is interesting to see that while most of the post written have to do with Griffon or Groovy there are also high ranking views related to JavaFX and Scala. more »
Griffon: threading management
Posted by: Andres Almiray on May 25, 2010
Right after Griffon 0.0 was released I made a post on the threading options it exposed. To recap, you can use the following methods on any View or Controller edt {} - makes a synchronous call inside the EDT. more »
Handling the shutdown sequence in a Griffon application
Posted by: Andres Almiray on May 23, 2010
You might have heard that Griffon 0.3.1 has just been released, and with it comes a new feature: ShutdownHandlers. more »
Griffon 0.3.1 released at Gr8conf
Posted by: Andres Almiray on May 21, 2010
The latest version of the Griffon framework (0.3.1) was released last Wednesday live on stage at Gr8conf Copenhagen! more »
Towards My Gradle Talk In Beyond Java AlphaCSP Seminar
Posted by: Baruch Sadogursky on May 20, 2010
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Recording of Grails / Terracotta webinar
Posted by: Dave Klein on May 12, 2010
In case you missed it and in case you're interested, Terracotta has posted a recording of the webinar that Mike Allen and I held a couple weeks ago. You can catch it in all of its glory (or lack thereof :) at http://bit.ly/scaling_grails. more »
Farewell Blog, Hello POMA
Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on May 7, 2010
As the saying goes…all good things must end. As of today, my blog is shutting down! I do intend to leave all content on-line so you’ll always be able to see a list of all 134 posts, but there won’t be any new posts for the foreseeable fu more »
Quartz and Grails: A Quick-Start Guide
Posted by: Dave Klein on May 4, 2010
Terracotta's Quartz scheduler has always played a key role in Grails development. Originally it was built into the framework; now it is a core plugin. Quartz allows us to have code executed at regular interv more »
A small improvement to GroovyConsole
Posted by: Andres Almiray on May 4, 2010
If you're a Mac user you've probably noticed that running a Java based application results in a default icon being placed in the dock. Groovy's console application is no exception, as the following pic bears witnessHowever, fixing this issue is simple; yo more »
Ecosystems, Modularity, & OSGi
Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on May 3, 2010
Recently, I questioned whether OSGi and modularity would succeed in penetrating the enterprise. But what I really meant to question is whether OSGi will have the disruptive impact of which it’s capable. I asserted that if OSGi does succeed, it won&# more »
Hackergarten #2 + Griffon
Posted by: Andres Almiray on May 1, 2010
The second installment of the Hackergarten just took place this Friday, an excellent way to end the month and a working week if I may add. What is Hackergarten you ask? In brief, a group of people like you and me that come together to tackle a problem by more »
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