Archive for July, 2008
Putting Google Finance to REST with Ruby
July 23, 2008 – 2:43 amRubyNation is just a week and a half away and in order to prepare myself I thought I'd brush up on some Ruby and Rails in the days preceding the conference. I don't use Ruby on a regular basis, but I'm a huge fan of dynamic languages so I'm ...
Putting Google Finance to REST with Groovy
July 16, 2008 – 11:07 pmFor a while now I've been interested in learning more about building and consuming REST based web services. Fortunately, many tech giants including Google and Yahoo expose much of their data and functionality through REST based APIs. These powerful APIs, combined with Groovy's concise, readable syntax make it ...
Groovy Metaprogramming – Creating Behavior on the Fly
July 8, 2008 – 12:07 amIn my previous post I talked about dynamically adding behavior to Groovy classes using either the ExpandoMetaClass or Categories. These techniques are especially useful if you know which methods you would like to add to your classes prior to actually writing any code. But what if you don't ...
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