Archive: August, 2011

The Groovy Mode for Emacs

Over the years there has been no shortage of Groovy modes for Emacs. They all had an irritating tendency to stumble even on common language constructs. I was very happy to find a new version that seems to get things right.
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File I/O and File Attributes in Java 7

A previous post introduced the filestat package for accessing low-level file attributes from Java on a Unix/Linux platform. The recently released Java 7 includes functionality for doing that job and a lot more.
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