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Turtle Graphics in Groovy - Extending Groovy with DSL techniques
Jim Driscoll shows how to create Napili, a small program accepting user scripts to control a turtle using GroovyShell, the Binding, overriding behavior with set/getVariable and invokeMethod, and more.
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Design Patterns in Groovy
Venkat Subramaniam shows how to implement several design patterns, including some GoF ones, using Groovy’s dynamic nature and closures.
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Upgrading from Grails 1.X to 2.X : Tips, Tricks and Gotchas
Will Buck provides advice for those interested to upgrade their applications from Grails 1.x to 2.x.
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Grails Functional Testing with Geb
Craig Atkinson presents using the Geb functional testing library for creating robust and readable tests with both JUnit and Spock, and configuring Geb for testing across multiple browsers.
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Grails Plugin Best Practices
Burt Beckwith explains the general process of creating a Grails plug-in, the different types of plug-ins, and how to deploy, release and test them.
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Grails Transactions
Burt Beckwith discusses performing transactions in Grails, covering services, customizing transaction attributes (isolation, propagation levels), two-phase commit, using JMS, and testing the code.
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Deploying, Scaling, and Running Grails on AWS and VPC
Ryan Vanderwerf explains how to create and deploy a Grails application on AWS VPC using various services such as RDS, S3, autoscaling, S3FS, EBS, etc.
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Learnfun and Playfun: A Nintendo Automation System
Tom Murphy explores the automation of Nintendo Entertainment System game playing, using the mathematically elegant and amusingly simple techniques of lexicographic ordering and time travel.
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Pickles & Spores: Improving Distributed Prog. in Scala
Heather Miller presents attempts at better supporting distributed programming in Scala, including a new fast pickling framework, as well as Spores - composable pieces of mobile functional behaviour.
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Building a Multi-Master Distributed Redis in Erlang
Chad DePue presents the process of building Edis, a Redis clone written in Erlang, allowing pluggable backends and implementing the Paxos algorithm.
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Practicing at the Cutting Edge: Learning and Unlearning about Java Performance
Martin Thompson overviews Java's evolution, comparing it with C++'s, discussing the challenges of pushing the performance limits.
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Build Your Own PaaS the Netflix Way!
Sudhir Tonse presents Netflix' composable PaaS built with several components that have been open sourced.
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