Groovy 2.0 is there - but useless...

As much as I waited for the 2.0 release of my favorite programming language I'm grumpy about the quality of the release - or rather the lack of it. Here's why:

One of the most important (for me) things that have been added to 1.8 (I guess it was), the annotations to decoratively add logging facilities to classes is broken.

https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY-5557

@groovy.util.logging.Slf4j
class Test {
    Test() { log.debug "Here" }
}

But the best thing is the error message:

Caught: BUG!

Until that's fixed I recommend sticking to the stable version.

Not a nice day,... unfortunately...

Syntax highlighting in less

I've been looking for this way to long not to make a note on my blog.

Syntax highlighting in less - Big thanks for the author of this blog post for making the contribution!

So what you do is:

a) you install the highlighter

apt-get install source-highlight

b) you enable less to use it by adding the following lines to your ~/.profile

export LESSOPEN="| /usr/share/source-highlight/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s"
export LESS=' -R '

And believe me: life is really good again :)