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Introducing the ‘Lambda Lounge’

By Matthew Taylor | November 16, 2008

My colleague Alex Miller has created a new group in the St. Louis area focusing on interest in functional and dynamic programming languages. He has dubbed it the Lambda Lounge (referring to λ-calculus), and the first meeting will be December 4 at 6PM.
I am very excited to be among the presenters at the first [...]


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SpringSource buys G2One

By Matthew Taylor | November 11, 2008

SpringSource announced today that is has acquired G2One, Inc.. Here is the official press release. So what does this mean for Groovy and Grails? Good things, people. Good things. More marketing and advertising money to spread the word. More force behind driving the technologies. More clout for you, [...]


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Groovy vs. Google Collections: Round #2

By Matthew Taylor | April 8, 2008

For Round #2 of our code challenge, Dan has responded to my initial provocation in spades with a efficient example of Google Collections‘ MultiMap utilities. His model involves car makes and models, their associations, and the easiest way to travel between them. At the core of the problem is the fact that a [...]


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Groovy vs. Google Collections: Round #1

By Matthew Taylor | April 4, 2008

In my last post, Dan Lewis (my friend and former coworker) responded with some counter-code from Google’s collections package. Instead of attempting to snap back with some witty technical retort, I challenged Dan to a code-off. Groovy collections vs. Google collections (in Java). Here is round one, and I’m going first with [...]


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Using collect on Groovy collections

By Matthew Taylor | March 29, 2008

When you find something you like, you want to share it with the world. Here are some more tricks when working with collections in Groovy that makes programming fun again! ;)
Let’s get a sample model and some data first, then we’ll get to the fun and easy Grooviness…
Let’s create some rock stars!
class RockStar [...]


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