Groovy meetup – Boats.com and SpringSource Groovy plugin for Eclipse

July 24, 2009 | by Tim
Last night was a great Groovy meetup at the Boats.com office here in downtown Vancouver. I got to use the new Burrard Bridge dedicated bike lanes, which is always fun, but it was the meetup content that I really enjoyed. Yuri from Boats.com went through their experience of using Groovy and Grails for some real projects. Using [...]
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Grails 1.1 Testing – Unit, Integration & Functional

July 20, 2009 | by dkoo
Last Friday I gave a presentation to the team here at 2Paths on the testing capabilities in Grails 1.1. As you Grails die-hards know, Grails 1.1 introduced the new GrailsUnitTestCase class which is a very useful extension of GroovyTestCase with support for mocking the dynamic properties and methods that Grails injects into various types of classes [...]
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Just the stuff please

August 6, 2008 | by Geoff
In April, 2008, I attended the “No Fluff, Just Stuff” in the guise of the North West Software Symposium, in Seattle, Washington, USA. For those not in the know, the NFJS series is aimed at tech savvy developers interested in expanding their knowledge and exposure to interesting developments in the land of Agile/Java (predominantly). With [...]
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