The Kaptain on … stuff

Today at work I was reminded that I didn’t learn how to use my IDE overnight, and that I’ve been greedily hoarding where I found good resources for learning how to drive IntelliJ in the fast lane. So without further ado, here’s the top places I’ve found and things I know. Links on the IntelliJ [...]

The IDE world just started to look a little greener for Griffon programmers. Today’s latest early access version of JetBrains IntelliJ version Maia has initial support for Griffon! It appeared on the JetBrains blogroll a couple of weeks ago, and indeed may have showed up in an earlier release, but today was the first time [...]

TestNG is a great tool for testing in Java, and it works even better with a little Groovy thrown in. Just lately I’ve had a lot of success using the DataProvider pattern. A DataProvider method in TestNG can return either a two dimensional Object array or an Iterator over each of the test parameters. A [...]

Been having an awful lot of fun lately playing with the Groovy StreamingMarkupBuilder. I’m not a big fan of xml in general, but it’s definitely got its uses(configuration and web service data interchange to name just a couple). StreamingMarkBuilder makes it really very painless to create complex xml structures without a whole lot of hassle. [...]

I had occasion today to reflect on what I’ve learned in the last few years developing software and it occured to me, not much has really changed since I first struggled with Lisp and Scheme in university. I still don’t completely “get” functional programming! Wrapping my head around all those brackets in any derivative of [...]

I’ve been asked by my friend and co-worker Manfred Moser to give a presentation at next month’s Vancouver Island Java user’s group meeting, and silly me I said yes before remembering that speaking in front of people always makes me feel quesy and light-headed. Thanks Manfred for the kind invitation; I’ll do my best to [...]