FreeBSD

FreeBSD for Writing Java

Rik Scarborough Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Groovy, Java Leave a Comment

This one is just for fun. Iโ€™ve been using FreeBSD off and on since the late 90โ€™s when a good friend, who has since passed, introduced me to the operating system.

Recently, for personal reasons, Iโ€™ve decided to move away from the big IT providers and install FreeBSD on my primary desktop for personal use. Just so itโ€™s clear, I still use the operating system my client uses for work, but for my own personal desktop and coding projects, Iโ€™ve decided to once again install and run FreeBSD.

This post is not a tutorial, but letโ€™s take some time to look at using this โ€œUnix-likeโ€ operating system for real-world situations, such as developing Java applications for fun and profit.

GINQ for the win

Using Groovy 4: GINQ for the Win

Rik Scarborough Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Groovy, Java, Programming 4 Comments

In my last blog post Back in the Groovy 4, I briefly mentioned Groovy-Integrated Query (GINQ). I’ve been wanting to write about how I would use this new feature, and I decided to take this opportunity to do so.

In this post, I will be describing two examples in which I used GINQ. The first requirement I faced on a recent project of mine and demonstrating how I used GINQ to fulfill it. A quick disclaimer: this is not a tutorial on GINQ. This blog is merely a discussion of how I’ve used GINQ and how I plan on making it part of my toolkit.

Groovy 4

Back in the Groovy 4

Rik Scarborough Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Groovy, Java Leave a Comment

When I heard that Groovy 4 is coming out, I decided to get ahead of it. I went online to explore what new features we were getting and how I could start using them in my own code.

This article will not be a full list of the new features of Groovy 4; there are simply too many for one post. This post will simply be my thoughts on a select few of those features and how I would plan to use them.

Let’s get started!