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Groovy JDK (GDK): Date and Calendar

I have looked at some highly useful methods available in Groovy GDK’s extensions to the Java JDK in blog posts such as Groovy JDK (GDK): File.deleteDir(), Groovy JDK (GDK): Text File to String, Groovy JDK (GDK): More File Fun, Groovy JDK (GDK): String … Continue reading

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Scripted Reports with Groovy

Groovy has become my favorite scripting language and in this blog I look at some of Groovy’s features that make it particularly attractive for presenting text-based reports. The post will show how custom text-based reports of data stored in the databas… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2012: What’s New in Groovy 2.0

Guillaume Laforge’s (SpringSource/VMware/@glaforge) “What’s New in Groovy 2.0” presentation was in the same conference room (Hilton Golden Gate 6/7/8) as Martin Odersky’s “What’s New in Scala 2.10” presentation, but I decided to leave the room between … Continue reading

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JavaOne 2012: Griffon, Up Close and Personal

After another tasty breakfast at Honey Honey Cafe & Crepery, I attended my initial Wednesday session, again in the Hilton (Imperial Ballroom A). The presentation was “Griffon, Up Close and Personal” and the presenters were Ix-chel Ruiz (@ixchelruiz) an… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2012: A Walk Through of Groovy’s AST Transformations

I made the very short walk from Hilton Plaza A/B back to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see the presentation “Walk through Groovy’s AST Transformations.” Groovy’s AST Transformations are something I’ve dabbled with directly a few times, but have more ofte… Continue reading

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Deleting All .class Files with Groovy

When running simple Java tests either to learn how something works in Java or to build examples for my blog posts, I often store the examples in the same directory on my machine. I decided that I wanted to remove all the generated .class files from thi… Continue reading

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JDK 7 Additions to Currency Class

The java.util.Currency class has been available since JDK 1.4, but JDK 7 has provided some useful new methods at the class and instance level. I look at these new methods in this post.

The Currency class represents worldwide currencies as “identified … Continue reading

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Software Development Posts of Interest – March 2012

This post references some of the recent blog posts and articles that have interested me. Topics include Java-specific topics such as Java EE, JavaFX, Scala, and Gradle as well as more general software development topics such as software patents and ope… Continue reading

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Recent Java-Related Posts Worthy of Special Notice

In this blog post, I reference and summarize recent Java-related posts that I have found to be particularly interesting and well worth the time spent reading them.

JDK 8 and Unsigned Integer Arithmetic

Joe Darcy’s post Unsigned Integer Arithmetic API… Continue reading

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Sneaking a Peek at Guava Release 11

The recent reddit/java thread If you still don’t know why Guava is awesome …. references the Guava Explained Wiki page. As I was looking at this, I noticed the page focused on Guava Math Explained. I have blogged several times regarding Guava feature… Continue reading

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