Archive for the 'groovy' Category

Groovy thought

Friday, August 21st, 2009

During some noodling about OpenMRS design issues with Paul, we wanted to look at the most recent version of some of our tables.  Did I open up MySQL?  No sirree!  I have 1.6 dev running on an appliance, so I just opened the Groovy module and ran this script:

/* Let’s make a convenient function for [...]

Translating Listserv archive to mbox format

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

We wanted to import our old mailing list entries from the OpenMRS mailing list Listserv archives into Nabble.  No problem.  Finding the GET listname FILELIST and GET listname file1, GET listname file2, … commands was easy enough.  A quick search of Nabble support made it clear that I needed to send them mbox files.  So, [...]

Making a groovy module for OpenMRS

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

No, I’m not smoking anything and I’m not trying to do a Greg Brady impersonation. By “groovy” module…I mean a Groovy module.
Groovy has the potential to bring the fun and rapid prototyping benefits of languages like Ruby to the Java scene. But a big advantage of Groovy is that it’s built [...]