Monthly Archives: April 2010

My Interpretation of the Signals and Slots Pattern

What happens An ObservableClass ‘emits‘ signals when something interesting happens. Examples of interesting things: a property change in a bean; a new db connection up; a window closes Emitting a signal is something that has to be done manually by … Continue reading

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Design your own DSL with Groovy

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Your-Own-DSL-with-Groovy This presentation is by Guillaume Laforge, one of the Groovy founders, who does quite an interesting presentation about how Groovy supports Domain Specific Languages. In short he starts with a simple example of how the Groovyisms in the language … Continue reading

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