Tag Archives: groovy

2GX09, Lambda Lounge vid, and Cosmos

By Matthew Taylor | June 28, 2009

I must apologize for not keeping the blog up to date. I promised myself that I wouldn’t get to that point with this blog, but life can take up a lot of your time. A lot has been happening lately, so I’ve been very busy with both home and work issues. I [...]


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Griffon at Gateway Groovy Users Group

By Matthew Taylor | March 11, 2009

I gave a presentation on Griffon today at the Gateway Groovy User Group. I have uploaded my slides onto slideshare for anyone to take a look. I think it went very well!

Griffon at Gateway GUG
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Here is all the source code:

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Also, some attendees were asking about [...]


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Groovy on TDD: KCJUG Follow Up

By Matthew Taylor | February 12, 2009

I had a great time presenting on “Groovy and TDD” last night at the Kansas City JUG. There was a great turn-out, and I had a chance to meet and greet lots of interesting people.
As promised, here is the code we wrote together in our TDD exercise, verbatim. There was also a question [...]


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Upcoming Grails-UI 1.1 New Features: Menus

By Matthew Taylor | January 29, 2009

To make a menubar like this:

You’ll need to include a ‘menu’ component in your gui:resources tag, then try this markup:

My default, menubars will render to the document body, but you can provide an optional renderTo attribute and have it render to any other container. I think it would be a cool idea to combine [...]


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Find the parent map entry in Groovy

By Matthew Taylor | December 5, 2008

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