From Maven to Gradle – part 3

In the first 2 parts of this series on Gradle, we have migrated a simple project from Maven to Gradle, and written a custom task and plugin for use in our future builds. Today, we are going to deploy the plugin to a repository, and then add the other parts of the MoneyPile project to a multimodule build. At the end of this post, our build will create a war-file and we will be able to run the webapplication from the build file, using an embedded Jetty application server.

LaTeX-friendly Strings with Groovy regexp

I might very well be the only person in the world who wants to generate LaTeX documents from a Java or Groovy application, but just in case there’s someone else out there who’s trying to do the same, here’s a Groovy method that replaces special characters with their LaTeX codes.

Universiteit Gent: Edo Framework

Jurgen stelde dit framework samen in een poging om de ontwikkeling van administratieve toepassingen binnen de UGent zoveel mogelijk te stroomlijnen en om de onderhoudbaarheid van de software te garanderen. Met succes: sinds enkele jaren wordt alle nieuwe software aan de UGent met dit framework ontwikkeld.