Ted Vinke

Ted is a Java software engineer with a passion for Web development and JVM languages and works for First8, a Java Web development company in the Netherlands.

Software Development
Ted VinkeOctober 19th, 2015
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Eclipse Mars: Grails 3.1 with Gradle, Groovy and GSP Support
What if you want to develop Grails 3 projects with Eclipse Mars (4.5) as easy as you did with Groovy/Grails…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeSeptember 28th, 2015
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Avoid NullPointerException: Safe Navigation with Groovy
We know it’s all too common in Java to get a NullPointerException when we use an object reference which is…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeMay 27th, 2015
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Grails’ JSONObject.NULL More or Less Equal To Null
Since Groovy 1.8 we can check if a Map is equal to another Map if the keys and values are…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeApril 15th, 2015
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Grails 3 Released: Installing Gradle and Groovy 2.4 Support in Eclipse/GGTS
Grails 3 has been released with a ton of new features. If you’re used to adding a new Grails distribution…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeMarch 18th, 2015
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Basic Groovy and Grails Code Review Guidelines
I’ve been – and still am – teaching Grails to non-Java programmers for a while now. This also meant to…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeMarch 3rd, 2015
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GGTS: Clean up Grails 2.0 output
Have you ever had in Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) that console output, by a running Grails application, which is exactly…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeDecember 23rd, 2014
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Grails domain classes and special presentation requirements
In Grails we often use our domain objects directly as backing model for presentation purposes and only for specialized situations…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeJune 23rd, 2014
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Java 8 Lambdas vs Groovy Closures Compactness: Grouping And Summing
Java 8 is featuring lambdas, which are similar to a construction Groovy has already for some time: closures. In Groovy…
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Groovy
Ted VinkeMay 26th, 2014
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Grails 2.4 Released: Installing Groovy-Eclipse Compiler 2.3 in Eclipse/GGTS
This month has been interesting: on the 7th Groovy 2.3.0 has been released, followed up by Grails 2.4 a few…
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