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Would rather be writing today, but it looks like I have a garage to tame instead. # Take that life! I cleaned up the garage AND got to write something today :). Gotta love it when a plan comes together! # RT @alexRuiz: Preparing release notes for FEST-Assert 1.1 (to be released tomorrow.) Looking forward […]

So today while I was cleaning out the garage, I finally got a chance to the listen to the Java Posse podcast on Google Collections and GlazedLists. Google Collections has come in handy a few times, the MultiMap extension most notably. It solves essentially the same kind of problem that I described way back in […]

Cooking conundrum of the day: parsley, is it a vegetable or just a food decoration? # I just entered to win a FREE copy of TweetStack for the iPhone: http://bit.ly/tweetstack You can too! Follow @iphoneincanada and RT! # @ajordens HA. That $2.99 freebie is MINE buddy 😉 in reply to ajordens # I’m wondering how […]

The ability to execute pretty much any bash statement embedded in a Groovy script is great, don’t get me wrong, but with the advent of Grape – and provided that you’re an Ivy/Maven user – adding the abilities of just about any Java library to your scripting language is easy. So what does Groovy add […]

Tis a beautiful day in Victoria. Time to take the dogs out for a nice long walk. # SwingLabs site is open for business again with a brand new point release http://swinglabs.org/downloads.jsp # @mosabua Congratz Manfred and Yen! # Up WAY too late, but with Griffon+SwingX+FEST I was just having way too much fun. # […]

In my continuing exploration of FEST testing using Groovy and the Griffon framework, I’ve added some tests for the ability to change the JXBusyLabel coloration on the fly. Since FEST allows you to alter the properties of the widgets directly, I didn’t have to do anything special to trigger actions on the JXColorSelectionButton. At first […]