JR Boyens

Fixing Grails Dependency Resolution

2010-03-15T00:00:00-07:00

In Grails 1.2 an Ivy dependency resolution DSL was added to
BuildConfig.groovy that allowed you to specify your dependency resolution in
Groovy.

This was good.

The problem was, it doesn’t support Maven classifiers.

This is bad.

I’ve looked at the DSL implementation and I don’t think it’s really that
hard to add it and I’m going to try my hand at fixing it in the next few days,
but in the meantime, I’ve come up with a workaround.

The workaround (really hacky I may add) is below:

GitHub repo for groovy snipMate snippets

2010-02-15T00:00:00-08:00

I’ve forked the snipMate snippets repo and created mine

I’ve added some basic snippets that I used daily, mostly for groovy, grails, and spock

Maybe someday I have the main repo pull once it’s cleaned up a little

Trying out hacker blogging

2009-02-02T00:00:00-08:00

I’ve been thinking about blogging some more and I really didn’t want to go through the hassle of dealing with setting up some blogging software. I’ve even WRITTEN blogging software (See Elephant) before and I didn’t want to deal with it. Either I’m really lazy or the state of software today favors complexity instead of thinking of existing systems in new ways.

I had just left the thoughts, frustrations, and comments well up inside. I’ve lost more ideas than I care to count. So, I had to do something. Then Tom Preston-Werner wrote a post about Blogging Like a Hacker ¹. Initially, I was a little confused, but it seemed cool. I threw it off for a time and went about my business. My mind kept coming back to it though. I enjoyed the idea that you could use the filesystem, Git and GitHub (more on that later) in such a way. It seemed so clean, so light, so… perfect.

I’ve got a GitHub account, but most of the stuff I write, is, of course, owned by my employer, ChaCha Search. As such, my GitHub account is very bare. I’ve only thrown one project up there that I didn’t spend more than an hour or so on. Still, I love they way the way that GitHub works and storing my blog in a Git repository (which is by far the most incredible source control on the planet) seemed too cool to pass up.

So here I am. One tiny voice in an ocean of content. I don’t know if this will be useful to any one but it lets me express myself.

¹ If you didn’t notice, I used Tom’s templates and CSS to build my own blog here. I plan on changing it, but it helps to stand on someone else’s shoulders.