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I took the opportunity this past weekend to test drive the latest beta version of Griffon and along with it the as-of-yet unreleased slideware plugin. If you’re not already aware, Griffon is a Grails inspired framework for creating Java Swing applications. The project lead, Andres Almiray, has given several presentations using this plugin and it [...]

I set out to explore some of the Atlassian API’s this week, along with a test drive of Jira 4, and ended up developing a simple XML-RPC plugin for Grails. Utilizing little more than the Groovy XMLRPC library I was able to implement a client service for the Jira XmlRpcService in minutes.
Nothing terribly complicated going [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking about all the different ways to bring Groovy into a pure Java or command line environment, and ended up diving into some code to explore the various options. Turns out there’s definitely a good variety of options for running Groovy dynamically inside and out of a Java application. I started [...]

I had a great time tonite geeking out with Griffon in front of an audience. My thanks to everyone that attended, and especially to Manfred Moser and VIJUG for the chance to show off some Groovy and Griffon Swing code!
The venue was great – very nice that the Vancouver Island Tech Park is kind enough [...]

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 [...]

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 I [...]