The Kaptain on … stuff

I had a great chance to play with some new stuff this weekend, namely Grails 1.2-M3, the new Grails REST plugin and Groovy in general. Awhile back I wrote some Groovy code to explore the various Jira, Fisheye and Crucible REST api’s using Apache HttpClient directly, and I wanted to see what it would like [...]

Sorting a Map by value with Groovy is very simple, due to the added ‘sort’ method on the Map interface. Turns out doing a reverse sort on a Map by values is almost as easy. Using the spaceship operator (‘< =>‘) you can define a very terse syntax for accessing ‘compareTo’, as long as the [...]

LOL! RT 37signals is now worth $100 billion. Congrats guys! http://bit.ly/11P45W # Back working with JBoss Seam today. And it seems I missed it too. Don't worry Grails, I still love you more # RT @aalmiray: ♺ @pledbrook How to test your Grails scripts: http://tinyurl.com/ycsjwc8 we're so borrowing that for #griffon # Out for lunch [...]

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I’ve been writing a lot of Groovy scripts lately and have developed quite a fondness for the CliBuilder along the way. There’s lots of great examples on the internet, but I could only find one place that demonstrated how to easily consume an unknown number of parameters as a List and that was a copy [...]