Learn a new language over the holidays

12/23/2009 | Grails, Programming, Groovy | 6 Comments

I am off in about an hour until the new year and I am pretty excited to have a nice long break. If you are looking to pick up another language over the Holidays I would suggest looking at 2 languages. Groovy/Grails if you want to stay in a similar environment and python because well it just seems cool and a buddy of mine is a python developer and swears by it. Luck for you Grails 1.2 was just released. I did a quick scan through the new features and found something that I thought was pretty cool. GORM now supports defining named queries in a domain class. For example, given a domain class like this: class Publication { String title Date datePublished static namedQueries = { recentPublications { def now = new Date() gt 'datePublished', now - 365 } publicationsWithBookInTitle { like 'title', '%Book%' } } } This allows you to do: // get all recent publications def recentPubs = Publication.recentPublications.list() // get up to 10 recent publications, skip the first 5... def recentPubs = Publication.recentPublications.list(max: 10, offset: 5) // get the number of recent publications... def numberOfRecentPubs = Publication.recentPublications.count() // get a recent publication with a specific id... def pub = Publication.recentPublications.get(42) // dynamic finders are supported def pubs = Publication.recentPublications.findAllByTitle('Some Title')

I hope all of you have a wonderful holiday and if you have some extra time fill your brain with some knowledge!

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#1 by Raymond Camden on 12/23/09 - 10:58 AM

I can definitely ditto Groovy. I used it at Broadchoice and it was a great language. Very easy. Oh, and if you get the book, they constantly say stuff like, "So and so was hard in Java, so we made it easy and practical." Hmmm.... what other language does that? ;)
#2 by Dan Vega on 12/23/09 - 11:01 AM

It does sound familiar! Also I was reading through my grails book last night and It had a lot of awesome hibernate (GORM) information that may give you some inspiration.
#3 by Paul on 12/23/09 - 11:30 AM

What grails books are you reading? Are they worth getting? I have messed a bit with groovey and I follow the grails podcast ( http://www.grailspodcast.com/blog/list ) so I'm interested in the references you are using.
#4 by Ben Nadel on 12/29/09 - 8:41 AM

I have been reading a book on Groovy, but have not tried it outside of the CFGroovy project yet. I just cracked open an intro book on Beginning Groovy and Grails from APRESS. Looking forward to actually installing something and trying to outside of ColdFusion.

I am super jealous :)
#5 by Dan Vega on 12/29/09 - 8:43 AM

I have the same book and I have managed to build 2 small apps already. I am really starting to get the hang of it so if you have any questions let me know. Also I would suggest installing Netbeans, its free and has good support for Groovy / Grails.
#6 by Ben Nadel on 12/29/09 - 8:52 AM

@Dan,

I'm sure you'll hear from me. I'm not sure what netBeans is, but I want to keep it as simple as possible at first.

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