Grails 3 has been released with a ton of new features. If you’re used to adding a new Grails distribution in Eclipse or Groovy/Grails Tool Suite, you’ve might have experienced…
Welcome to the 2nd edition of the First8Friday videoblog, our recurring dose of Open Source inspiration we’d like to share with you the 1st Friday of each month – part of our…
Welcome to the First Edition of the First8Friday videoblog, our recurring dose of Open Source inspiration we’d like to share with you the 1st Friday of each month. Yes, a…
In Grails we often use our domain objects directly as backing model for presentation purposes and only for specialized situations we create value holder objects or DTOs. Beginning Grails developers know how…
Today I gave a presentation about Grails Object Relational Mapping (GORM) and HQL for the teams. Everybody is pretty SQL-minded and I wanted to show them what — instead of…
Java 8 is featuring lambdas, which are similar to a construction Groovy has already for some time: closures. In Groovy we could already do this: def list = ['a', 'b',…
In a week I will be attending the 4th annual GOTO Amsterdam conference and I am really looking forward to it. For those who don’t know what this conference is…
What is Codenvy exactly? Well, their website states: Codenvy is a cloud environment for coding, building, and debugging apps. Basically, it’s an IDE in the cloud (“IDE as a…
Let me share some experiences when introducing a new colleague to the team and getting him or her quickly integrated. On my current job we’re expanding rapidly with the amount…
We’ve already been here for a few days, and now while I’m writing this sitting in the luxurious lobby of the Hilton sipping from a hot Hazelnut Macchiato, I’m really…