Glen

Scripting the Milk: Powering Outlook from Groovy

I’ve always been a TODO list kinda guy and the only product that I’ve found works well with my PocketPC is Outlook. That’s cool when I’m on client sites (since they all run Outlook), except that I’d like to be able to use some other tool when I’m hacking away on my Macbook. Well lately I’ve been tinkering with Remember The Milk to see what online TODO managers...

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Antlr, DSLs and Business Grads….

Truth be known, I’ve never really been very interested in Computer Science. My undergrad is in Business, and my postgrad is in IT. I was busy writing COBOL-80 applications while the Comp Sci guys were building logic gates on patch panels. For the most part it’s put me in good stead career-wise since the things you pickup in those HR, Marketing, and Stats units are actually quite useful in...

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Eclipse Tip: Breakpoint on Exception

I’ve been starting to read up on Eclipse Rich Client Platform programming using the excellent RCP Book. Along the way they’ve introduced me to a few things I didn’t know about Eclipse itself. One of the very cool things that I didn’t know about is that Eclipse will let you set breakpoints based on where an Exception occurs. This is going to be a huge timesaver! You access the...

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The Groovy Spaceship Operator

I’ve been digging into Groovy in Action lately. I read the .75 review copy, which was extremely cool. The final release of the book included a ton of even cooler stuff! One thing that did appear in the final version was a ton of interesting reference information, including very comprehensive tables in the body of the text. One of the operators I hadn’t seen before was the “spaceship...