I recently wrote a gift list management site for my family using Grails. Grails made it simple, the entire site was done in less than a week. That was version 1 of the site. In version 2 of the site, I rewrote the Ajax’d GSP’s using Flex 3, since I spent over 16 frustrating hours [...]

This is a small walkthrough of a simple login screen written with the Google Web Toolkit on the front end, and Groovy and Hibernate on the back end. The entire source code can be found here. For the purposes of brevity we will look at only parts of the code. An IntelliJ 7 project file [...]

Groovy In Action is a perfect guide for Java developer’s wishing to move into the land of dynamic typing, closures, and scripting. Writing code in Groovy really does help bring the fun of programming back. Compared to Java, Groovy is easier to write, read, and test which means less time coding and more time focusing [...]