Code To Joy

Dear Santa, I have been good this year. I have written intelligent unit-tests with plenty of code coverage. No empty catch blocks and trie...

Looking for something to do on a Thursday night, for a ray of sunshine in an otherwise bleak and desolate week? Need a break from the hustle...

In a recent post , I leveraged Spring to write a simple client-server app using 50 lines of Java. I've moved it to Groovy. I've inc...

There was a tidbit couched in the recent announcement about Groovy 1.5: there is a joint compiler that eases the compilation of projects th...

Recently, I paired with a colleague and sought to experiment with detached objects in Hibernate across a remote connection. Armed with some...

In the past, I had trouble remembering the concept behind Groovy's Expando class. I knew it wasn't difficult but it was elusive. ...

I am a big fan of analogies and metaphors. When I think of a good (or funny) one, it is often the very definition of a good day . Well, I d...