Andy's Blog Thanks to Amit Sharma (of Packt Publishing), I recently got a copy of Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation authored by Brett Porter and Maria Odea Ching. The book has proven to be an interesting read so far (even for an advanced maven user), covering a lot of important (and sometimes ...

Xebia Blog I've just come back from http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Home" target="_new">Devoxx 09 in Antwerp, Belgium, a conference that will probably become known as the one in which closures sneaked back in to Java 7. Whilst I didn't feel any particular urge to return for the day 3, there was ...

Matt Woodward's posterous The preview edition of Gina and Adam's new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. Google Wave is a young tool that's not terribly easy to understand for a lot of folks, but at least a couple of your Lifehacker ...

Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blogmore images more images No appeal of dismissed conviction in MySpace case LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors say they will not appeal the dismissal of a woman's convictions in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. Friday's announcement effectively ...

Weiqi Gao's Observations ( Note) I started this blog 7 days ago but didn't finish it on time. I'm finishing it up now. The current date will be November 13, 2009 starting from the next sentence. "Relentless reduction of complexity" is a phrase I picked up from Alex Payne's keynote at the Strange Loop ...

Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne BoyarskyWhat happened Time Warner Cable (in New York City) pushed a software upgrade to the cable box that got rid of the VCR timer feature. This feature has existed since I got cable and allowed you to set the cable box to turn on/change channels ...

dzone.com: javaIn the previous post to this blog, we looked at orchestrating JBossESB services from a RiftSaw BPEL process. In this post, we'll look at the other side of the RiftSaw-JBossESB integration; invoking a RiftSaw BPEL process from an ESB service.

GroovyBlogs.orgThe other day, Scott Davis published an article at developerWorks entitled Practically Groovy: ��SwingBuilder and the Twitter API, Part 2. ��I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear that it...

GroovyBlogs.orgThe Grails create-app command accepts several arguments besides the application name. We can create the Grails directory structure in the current directory by using the --inplace argument. We can set ...

GroovyBlogs.orgI’m pleased to announce the latest version of the Stark Security plugin for Grails has been released. Docs have been updated and release notes are available: http://grails.org/plugin/stark-secu...