It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with Gradle. Once I was introduced to it, I never looked back. It was the same with Ant as I transitioned from Make. But, Gradle is different. I always felt building was necessary evil. It was often done way after first code was ever written. This isn’t true with Gradle. Before any code is written, I start every project by setting up my Gradle build. I actually look forward to adding more features to my build. How crazy is that?! WSDL to JavaRecently, I published one of my old SharePoint…
Category: <span>Groovy</span>
Ask me a month ago regarding my choice of scripting language, my answer would have been Perl or, if it’s a trivial use case, Bash. That’s no longer the case. Now, I am eager to flex my Groovy knowledge. Why Groovy? Consider the use case of executing a system command and redirecting the output to be processed by your program. With Perl, this is a trivial task: just use a backquote to perform your system command. Perl will assign the result of your standard out to the left-hand variable. In Groovy, it’s just as easy. Now, imagine having to perform…