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Goodbye cable, hello internet TV

This post is for Mario. I started it as an email to him, but he suggested it as a blog post in the first place, and now that it’s done it does seem to be post-worthly (although off-topic).
Here are the details of my new home TV system.
First of all, the only paying services I have [...]

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TDD with Groovy: presentation at STL JUG

I will be giving another TDD With Groovy presentation at the St. Louis JUG on June 11 (tomorrow night) at 6:30PM. I hope you can make it! This will be similar to the one I gave at the KC JUG back in February, where we will be constructing a Groovy unit converter from [...]

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Find the parent map entry in Groovy

Sometimes I deal with maps of maps in Groovy. Config files in Groovy generally boil down to combinations of maps and lists. I’ve found myself with a reference to one entry within this structure, wanting to back out to the parent of the entry. This is especially the case within builders, where [...]

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Lambda Lounge Presentation: Groovy Categories and Mixins

There was an excellent turnout at the inaugural meeting of the Lambda Lounge last night at Appistry in St. Louis. I think we were all surprised at how many über-geeks could fit into one small room. Alex Miller did a great job organizing the event, so kudos to him. I’ve already seen [...]

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Vote for GrailsUI 1.1 issues!

We have gotten a lot of feedback on GrailsUI since its release only a few weeks ago, and there is a long list of issues awaiting work. Some of the new capabilities of GrailsUI will be:

Datepicker date format
Datatable client side pagination and sorting
Datatable inline cell editors
AutoComplete rendered as combo box
New tags for charts
New dataSource [...]

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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: