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Category Archives: Groovy

Oh, Gradle, You Made My Heart Skip a Beat

As I just mentioned, I’ve been working on some Gradle plugins. I’ve been using Gradle in my polyglot programming [...]
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Announcing Gradle-Plugins

A lot of people know that I have contributed a lot of Grails plugin work, even if my take on [...]
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“Holy Crap, That Worked!”: Running JRuby/Cucumber from Gradle

I’m working on some code for my book and I’m trying out Swinger, which is a Cucumber library for Swing. [...]
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null Sucks: A Case in Point

Take a look at this API: ClassNode#addProperty. Turns out that if you pass null into getterBlock and setterBlock, you [...]
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The @WithLog Annotation and Groovy ASTTransforms

I’ve just released a @WithLog annotation to GitHub under RobertFischer/Groovy-WithLog. The goal of @WithLog is to reduce the boilerplate [...]
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