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More Groovy Goodness

By barneyb on September 24, 2008

Yesterday afternoon, I was talking to a friend about one of my apps, and he asked about how big the app was.  I had no idea, and thought I'd write a little app to figure it out for me.  Oh how easy Groovy makes things.  The basic idea was to build a simple parser to [...]

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Meme(me)

By barneyb on September 23, 2008

Per Mark:

The Rules:

Take a picture of yourself right now
Don't fix your hair, don't change your clothes, just take the picture
Post that picture with no editing
Post these instructions with the picture

I do this every day, meme or not.  See the stream, or get it as RSS.

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CF Groovy Preso

By barneyb on September 12, 2008

Last night I talked at the PDX RIA group about using Groovy to extend CFML applications and better leverage some of the benefits that Java has to offer (in addition to the benefits Groovy itself brings).  Unfortunately we had some technical difficulties, but the presentation was recorded on Connect, and can be accessed at http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p71343823/.  [...]

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Why, Microsoft, Why?

By barneyb on September 10, 2008

I've had the unfortunate luck to partially inherit sysadmin duties for the web team at Mentor (along with Joshua) after one our coworkers left.  While I don't necessarily mind a sysadmin role, almost all of the infrastructure is Windows.  The sole exception is our Subversion server, which is Linux, and only because I migrated everything [...]

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Stream Layouts

By barneyb on September 5, 2008

No, I'm not talking about those things full of water running down the mountainside, I'm talking about how you assemble a full HTML (or whatever) page from a webapp.  Being a Trac user, I've done a bit with Genshi, and then with Grails used SiteMesh, both of which are stream-based engines.  I'd always though the [...]

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Groovy Preso on Connect

By barneyb on September 5, 2008

My Groovy presentation next week for the PDX RIA will also be available online (via Connect) at http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/r59025898/.  A recording will be available as well, but that URL isn't available until afterwards.  I'll post it after the meeting, along with my materials.

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Groovy at PDXRIA

By barneyb on September 4, 2008

Next Thursday (Sept 11) I'll be presenting at the PDX RIA group (formerly CFUG) about Groovy.  Someone (cough…Simeon…cough) hasn't updated the site with the new info, but rest assured that it's happening.  As you might imagine, I'll be talking about my CF Groovy framework, but I'll also be talking about JVM language integration in general, [...]

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Twitterfon, Typing Upside-Down, and IMPlus

By barneyb on September 1, 2008

After more use, I've uninstalled both Twitterific and Twinkle, and switched to Twitterfon. It's simple, fast, works well, and hasn't crashed yet. It touts a focus on the core, not extra features, but I'm not sure what is missing.
I also just found IMPlus, which is a multiprotocol IM client for iPhone. It [...]

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Refresh on GMail for iPhone

By barneyb on August 21, 2008

After a couple weeks of reloading the whole GMail app to check for new messages, I found a better way. It always seemed silly to have to do it, but there isn't a refresh button like on the desktop interface. Like so many things with Google products, all it takes is stepping back [...]

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My New Blog

By barneyb on August 21, 2008

I just created another blog for myself.  Why have only one, when I could just as easily have two?  I've always tried to keep things generally technical on here, knowing that most of my readers are here for the technical content.  The new blog is a complete departure.
A few years ago, I started building an [...]

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