Are you interested?  I’m looking at bringing the same style product that we’ve been delivering to the Groovy community to the JRuby and Jython communities, respectively.  If there’s enough interest, we’ll move forward.  Care to register interest?  Sign up at http://jrubymag.com and/or http://jythonmag.com and let me know what you’d like to see covered.

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A few weeks ago, I posted a survey asking for input on the next magazine topic for Web Dev Publishing to pursue.  The results were interesting, but unfortunately the results were not definitive, and I’m left with the same quandry as before – which topic to choose.
The winner of the survey, selected at random, was [...]

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After having spent much time with Groovy/Java, and a bit with Ruby and a bit with C#, I have a newer perspective on learning new programming languages.  Much of my thoughts are summed up by this post from Gustavo Duartes.  I liked his choice of words at the top – “language dabbling” – which largely [...]

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Obviously I rubbed some people the wrong way, and didn’t explain my question(s) clearly enough from the outset, then got wrapped up in taking some offense from some of the responses.  Reviewing everything today I can see where I could have responded differently, and more clearly, earlier on.  Apologies to anyone who was offended (if [...]

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My friend Curtis Mitchell invited me to speak to some of the developers at Lexis Nexis about Groovy and Grails.  I was honored to speak, but also slightly nervous.  For some reason I’d got it in to my head that they were a Java development shop.  *Me* presenting to experienced Java developers makes me slightly [...]

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GroovyMag has recently announced Groovy and Grails training classes. These are web-based and able to be taken anywhere you’ve got a computer with Flash and an internet connection.
I’m excited about offering them, and working with Robert Fischer (of SmokeJumperIT) to finish putting together the course materials. He’s taught Groovy and Grails classroom-style before, [...]

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The January 2009 issue of GroovyMag is out. Grab it now!
This issue includes:

Community News from Dave Klein
Grails WebFlow walkthrough from Brian Doyle
Regular Expressions with Groovy from Ted Naleid
Feed Plugin overview – once again from Dave Klein!
Rich Swing Apps with Groovy from Andres Almiray
Interview with IBM’s Project Zero team
Excerpt from Grails [...]

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Just a quick thought here after looking at someone’s code I just stumbled on. This person had a “isReadOnly()” method inside of a generic “set” method which would allow them to determine if a property should be allowed to be modified or not.
It got me to thinking again how the traditional notion of “visibility” [...]

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Just had some random thoughts about Java, Javafx and mobile apps.  I want to be wrong, but the recently launched JavaFX feels like ‘too little too late’.  I was listening to some Sun podcasts and they did a good job of making me interested in JavaFX.  When it was first announced last year I said [...]

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Yes, yes, a minor blatant plug for GroovyMag here
Current December issue has articles on building Swing apps with Groovy, developing iPhone-oriented apps with the iUI plugin, an article on GORM’s strengths, an interview with ContentSieve on their use of Groovy/Grails (their entire stack is now Grails-based), community news and an overview of [...]

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