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365 consecutive days on Stack Overflow - what I have learned from this experiment

A few days ago I have reached 365 consecutive days on Stack Overflow. In the beginning of July 2017 I have decided to run an experiment - visit Stack Overflow every single day and do something useful to other community members (answer a question, review one of the queues, edit and improve existing questions and so on). Now it is the best time to summarize this experiment and share my thoughts with you.

Groovy script: closure does not modify @Field annotated variable

Recently I have answered a few questions on Stack Overflow related to Groovy scripts and how they work in combination with closures and delegated objects. Some of use cases may not be intuitive and today I’m gonna show you one of them and explain what happens under the hood.

Why "grails package" executes Config.groovy file?

This blog post is inspired by one of my recent Stack Overflow answers to following question: Grails: why is the Config.groovy file executed during compilation?. Here I’m going to show you step by step what makes grails package command executing Config.groovy script and how I’ve managed to find the answer to that question.