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Someone – actually, I failed to find out who – managed to create a magazine related to groovy:
GroovyMag. While, groovy isn’t strictly related to RIA, it may be used to write code for Adobe’s LiveCycle Server series of products.

Here a short list of what’s inside the currently PDF-only GroovyMag:

GroovyMagThe Future of Java is Groovy : Shawn Hartsock lays out his views for why Groovy should be your next language :: Getting to know your Grails : Walk through the basics (and not so basics) of Grails in this tutorial from Robert Fischer :: Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy : Andres Almiray takes you through building a Swing application with Groovy. Part 1 in a mutlipart series. :: Groovy In The Wild : GroovyMag talks with companies who’ve made the switch to Groovy and Grails. This month: Minggl.com :: Community news : Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein. :: Plugin Corner : Learn about a new Grails plugin each month with Dave Klein.

BTW: This reminds me to my idea to create a Flex compiler as a grails plugin

A good place to share tips and tricks is Adobe’s Flex Cookbook. Adobe produces the site in cooperation with O’Reilly. Here are some of mine:

- Object-oriented game-style animation using libAnim2D [demo here]
- Preview a PDF inside your AIR application
- CPreferencesManager : A preferences manager for AIR
- Executing several SQL statements with one instance of SQLStatement

For my posts, I received a free printed issue of Flex 3 Cookbook from Adobe as a gift! Thx, nice idea!

Today, I joined the Flex User Group Hamburg. Athough I live roughly 100km away, I hope to meet some nice people in Hamburg soon.

In case you’d like to attend a meeting, just subscribe this RSS feed of Flex User Group Hamburg or join the Yahoo mailinglist.

UML – Design by picture

Most professional software designer use or at least know UML, the unified modelling language. By means of a formal visual language, software designer describe software systems. Having it roots around 1994 at Rational Software Corporation, UML finally became 2005 an ISO/IEC standard. Today, UML 2.x is able to describe functional, structural and dynamic system properties.

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