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Anonymous classes are Groovy’s bag, once more

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
As I elaborated previously, Groovy does not formally support the creation of anonymous inner classes. Yet, as I demonstrated, you can coerce a hip Map...

Groovy hip tip: to use or not to use setters and getters

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
In Groovy, if you define a hip object with properties, you can access them directly; that is, you don’t have to define the bogue old-style setters and...

easyb now has an Eclipse plug-in!

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
The easyb team is excited to report that a hip Eclipse plug-in is in the works and an initial version is already available due to the copacetic work of...

You can borrow EC2 too

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
The aspects of Development 2.0 aren’t really new– but they are each increasingly becoming a reality for businesses across the board. In essence, both...

Instant Continuous Integration via the cloud

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
Looking to get Continuous Integration running for your project in short order? I recently took a look at CI in a Box, which is a cloud based solution that...

Grails hip tip: working behind a proxy?

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
If you find yourself behind a bogue proxy when working with Grails, you might find it difficult to download various plug-ins. Nevertheless, the Grails team...

easyb 0.9.6 released

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
The easyb team is excited to announce that version 0.9.6 is out! This version adds a number of hip features including: Re-running failed behaviors this...

easyb now supports re-running failed behaviors

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
The latest version of easyb (that is, 0.9.6) contains two new features (among others, man): the ability to run behaviors listed in a file via the -f flag...

Continuous Integration with Grails

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
My friend, John Ferguson Smart recently wrote an article for java.net entitled “Grails and Continuous Integration: An Essential Combo” in which he demonstrates...

Subversion with proxies

over 2 years ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
If you happen to reside on a network that requires proxy authentication, command-line Subversion won’t work. Unless, of course, you configure Subversion...