Groovy Blogs

• UI Widgets… oh for something pure Grails
  I feel like there is a mismatch in the grails/rails opinionated software approach and the apparent lack of a de facto and impressive UI library for javascript based web-apps built with these framework...
  AnyWare
• Groovy Truth and the instanceof Operator
  I just stumbled across a little gotcha which would have failed compilation in Java, but in Groovy compiles but doesn't do what the developer intended. if (!obj instanceof SomeEnum) throw new Illega...
  STATE YOUR BIZNESS
• Spring Bean Aliases in Grails
  I was looking at the source code of a Spring application recently and saw an applicationContext.xml element that I hadn't seen before: . It turns out this has been around for quite a wh...
  An Army of Solipsists
• A Grails Plugin for Twitter
  I’ve recently started using Twitter, late to the party as usual So when somebody asked a question this weekend on the Grails User mailing list about using the JTwitter API, I took a look at it...
  An Army of Solipsists
• Groovy type crazyness
  Before I start, please remember the finesse of numbers in groovy: 0.1 is a BigDecimal, if you want a Double, you have to write 0.1D. Also, I might be seeing something completely wrong here, correction...
  Cognitive Consonance