Jul 16 2008
SQLite is a very interesting database engine. Its performance, simplicity and that fact it runs as a library (not a server) make it the perfect candidate for small project with few users.
Today I experimented with accessing SQLite database from within groovy.
Jul 16 2008
I feel very strongly about the historical opportunity for the GNOME community to switch their tool kit over to QT 4.x. GNOME was originally a fork of effort from KDE back in the old days when QT was not GPL-enabled.
Jul 12 2008
Could writing threads be easier than this? I wonder. 
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Jul 12 2008
Lots of fun with Groovy introspection. Java already provides something similar but in Groovy it has completely different taste and use.
I actually use introspection often from within groovysh to investigate on what a class provides, just like auto-complete in modern IDE’s
Jul 07 2008
GORM is cool, but groovy Sql is for the simpler cases were you just need to interact with the database.
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Jul 07 2008
Dynamic text templates are joy to do in groovy.
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Jul 05 2008
In the computer industry, the pendulum of debate, innovation, and building infrastructure at one end vs building up complete and ready solutions on the other end keeps swinging every 20 years (more or less).
So here it comes, to the rest of the thinkers and planners and to the delight of the builders and engineers; the era of FLOSS