So, it’s more than two years since I started to use Groovy. At the beginning I solved couple Project Euler problems and moved to scripting. I still love Groovy, but couple months ago I started to look at Scala. What…
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Problem 24 in Scala
Gradle snippets: Modularize your scripts
Build files tend to grow in time. New tasks are added, some customizations are made and you end up with several pages of groovy code. Gradle is based on Groovy, so many constructs can be really simplified, but often it’s…
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Gradle snippets: extract your dependencies
I believe you’ll find this in every gradle project you can download from the net. Since it’s groovy it’s best to just declare a map with your external dependencies in root project. You can then use it in your subprojects…
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Gradle snippets: Rename your subprojects’ build files
It’s good to have project separated into modules. It encourages separation of functionalities and simplifies code. Fortunately gradle supports multiple projects very well. Having a project with 2 modules like this: – awesome-project-root — build.gradle — settings.gradle -+ persistence —-…
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It’s all about dynamic
In previous post I mentioned about the visitor pattern and how to use it in Java. I also use groovy in my projects and there’s a much better way to solve the problem with processing collections. I have found a…
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Speed up development in groovy
To take full advantage of groovy it’s good to know additional methods extending standard java objects. I often visit groovy jdk, to see what actually is new in groovy. Operations on collections really speed up the work. In jdk you…
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Problem 24
I’ll start with Project Euler. I like to learn new things by practice and some problems seem simple enough to learn groovy. Let me just start with Problem 24. What is the millionth lexicographic permutation of the digits 0, 1,…
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