TeamCity saved my day

I had crazy problem this morning - Groovy Core build was failing with StackOverflowException on some Windows configurations but not on Linux or Mac. Unfortunately, it happen after my commit several days ago, so I was somehow responsible for that.

I have only Mac. No Linux. No Windows. So my first idea was to ask someelse to take care for the bug. But you know what… It is somehow not very professional.

Fortunately, I found very simple solution. TeamCity Remote Build. 45 minutes and 15 builds and problem was located. I even was able to create test case, which also failing on my Mac. Really cool.

Now I have more serious problem - to understand how to fix it. But it is kind of more regular work.

Loopy with Groovy

There’s been a lot of people asking for a Java loop syntax in groovy. A lot if not almost all usages however are cleaner without it, once you know some idiomatic Groovy.

Marc Palmer’s post blog post demonstrates it almost obviously.