Archive for 2009

A Groovy Time at JavaOne 2009

June 8, 2009 1:10 PM

Although there was a somewhat somber mood at JavaOne this year (thanks Oracle!), you couldn’t help but notice the awareness and general excitement for dynamic languages and in particular Groovy (here is some additional proof). And as my colleague Sten Anderson pointed out already, Groovy won the Script Bowl 2009 which was represented by the languages’ project manager Guillaume Laforge. Last year’s winner was JRuby due to a dazzling eye candy type of Demo, but of course, was a useless application for the real world like most demos are. I wouldn’t be suprised a bit to see Scala win it next year as it seems the momentum for it is growing.

posted by Bill Gloff

Mavenize Your Flex/AIR App

February 9, 2009 11:28 AM

I recently had a need to create a maven project that could compile my Flex application and package it up as an AIR app. After fighting with Flex-Mojos 2.x, I decided to try out the new 3.0-SNAPSHOT and finally got a successful compile and package. The main project page for Flex-Mojos can be found here.

posted by Bill Gloff

Choosing a Flex Architectural Framework

January 30, 2009 5:55 PM

If you’re working on a moderate to complex Flex/Air application I hope you are using some kind of MVC style framework to help with organizing your components and the interactions between them. If you do not use a framework, you will unknowingly be creating your own. This, consequently, makes it harder for others to get up to speed with any maintenance that will need to be completed, and you will be on the hook to create all the related documentation. Also, why re-invent the wheel when pre-existing frameworks, such as Cairngorm, PureMVC, Swiz, or Mate, already implement best practices and are field-tested? All you need to do is set aside a little time to learn them.

posted by Bill Gloff

Groovy Dates Are Groovy

January 8, 2009 1:07 PM

I recently came across a new tidbit of info while working with the Date class in the GDK and I thought I would point it out real quick. I wanted a easy way to compare two Date objects while disregarding time. One to represent today’s date and the other to represent a future date. So I took a look at the GDK docs for the Date class and I noticed that since version 1.5.7, Groovys’ Date now has a static parse(..) method and a instance format(..) method which worked out nice for me in terms of writing less code. Here is a snippet of my code:

posted by Bill Gloff

Chicago Groovy User Group

January 6, 2009 11:17 AM

I wanted to remind everyone that in one week from today, the Chicago Groovy User Group will have its inaugural meeting in the Chicago Loop. The featured speaker will be Sten Anderson from CITYTECH who will give a talk on using Groovy to create DSL’s. There will be free food and drinks available and a book raffle provided by CITYTECH. Please visit http://cgug.org for more information and to sign up for future notifications.

posted by Bill Gloff

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