CouchDB is so Groovy

Without a doubt, the burst of innovation occurring in the open source world over the last few years has led to an increase in developer productivity, baby. Freely available tools, frameworks, and solutions address once-common time sinks. Apache’s CouchDB is no exception. It’s amazingly easy to get going with CouchDB once you have it up and running.

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Comparing Scala and Groovy via ScalaTest and easyb

Because it’s my bag, I’ve recently taken to learning Scala.

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CouchDB on EC2 in 3 1/2 minutes

CouchDB is an open source document oriented database written in Erlang that allows you to model domains in a flexible manner as a self-contained document that contains no schema but, instead, a roughly similar blueprint to other documents.

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XML verification just got easier with easyb

There’s myriad ways to validate XML these days; in fact, with Groovy, the mechanics of parsing XML with <a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/Reading+XML+using+Groovy%27s+XmlSlurper">XMLSlurper</a> couldn’t be easier! Nevertheless, from time to time, because it’s my bag, baby, I’ve found that I’ve needed an easy way to validate XML documents without having to actually parse them myself.

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EC2 is easier than you think

As I’ve written about before with respect to Development 2.0, the future of application infrastructures is already here: it’s the cloud.

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Grails hip tip: exporting schema DDLs

If you utilize Grails out-of-the-box and don’t change any of the connection profiles, your hip application will be bound to an in memory instance of HSQLDB — this is fine and dandy for developmental purposes, but oftentimes, you’ll want to run Grails on top of a more permanent data store (keep in mind that you can operate in such a manner with HSQLDB’s file based persistence).

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Anonymous classes are Groovy’s bag, once more

As I elaborated previously, Groovy

does not formally support the creation of anonymous inner classes.

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Groovy hip tip: to use or not to use setters and getters

In Groovy, if you define a hip object with properties, you can access them directly; that is, you don’t have to define the bogue old-style sett

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easyb now has an Eclipse plug-in!

The easyb team is excited to report that a hip Eclipse plug-in is in the works and an initial version is already available due to the copacetic work of both Darran White and Robert Hjertmann! The plug-in works with Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5 and currently supports running behaviors (both stories and scenarios) via the a run configuration.

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You can borrow EC2 too

The aspects of Development 2.0 aren’t really new– but they are each increasingly becoming a reality for businesses across the board.

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Instant Continuous Integration via the cloud

Looking to get Continuous Integration running for your project in short order? I recently took a look at CI in a Box, which is a

cloud based solution that provides Hudson, as a CI server, Java 6, Ant and Maven 2

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Grails hip tip: working behind a proxy?

If you find yourself behind a bogue proxy when working with Grails, you might find it difficult to download various plug-ins. Nevertheless, the Grails team already solved this problem for you — simply issue the set-proxy command via the command line and a nifty script will prompt you for any required credentials.

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easyb 0.9.6 released

The easyb team is excited to announce that version 0.9.6 is out! This version adds a number of hip features including:

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easyb now supports re-running failed behaviors

The latest version of easyb (that is, 0.9.6) contains two new features (among others, man):

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Continuous Integration with Grails

My friend, John Ferguson Smart recently wrote an article for java.net entitled “Grails and Continuous Integration: An Essential Combo” in which he demonstrates how to leverage Hudson’s Grails plug-in. Hudson is a hip CI server and having the ability to monitor a Grails project is quite neat. I highly recommend reading his article!

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