I’ve come to love the Python language for its elegant syntax combined with powerful constructs like comprehensions. Jython allows me to take Python to the next level by allowing it to interact with my existing JVM-compatible code. Now I want to extend that even further and allow myself (and you, of course) to integrate Jython with Griffon, a framework for building desktop applications in Groovy.

Introducing the Jython plugin for Griffon

The Jython plugin enables compiling and running Jython code on your Griffon application. You don’t even need to install Jython manually. A Jython REPL is available with access to your Groovy/Java classes
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I’ve been spending a lot of time recently tinkering with different constructs and methodologies in Javascript, and one of the most fascinating things I’ve come across is Spencer Tipping‘s use of continuation-passing style.

It’s ok if you aren’t familiar with CPS, but I think anyone hoping to make the cognitive leap to functional programming should study it. As a bare miniumum, you need to know that a continuation is:

[a reification of] an instance of a computational process at a given point in the process’s execution

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Last Tuesday I gave a short presentation at the new Boulder Hadoopers Group about testing Hadoop jobs with MRUnit. You will have to know what Hadoop is and how to read Groovy code to fully understand it. I am including the important notes on the slides as well.
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