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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The December 2008 GroovyMag is out now.  I could tell you all about the articles contained within - some meta-thoughts on GORM’s strategy, iUI iPhone development with Grails, Testing Plugin use, Rich Swing Apps with Groovy, and so on.  Or… you could just watch the video below before you go buy your copy.  :)

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This is a repost from my post over at GroovyMag.
I’m planning to do this on a couple other projects, and thought I’d share this with you. It’s not specifically something related to GroovyMag magazine, but is a technique I’m using in a Grails project to make it easy to switch layouts based on the user.
All [...]

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So having recently launched a magazine on the Groovy language, I decided to check out the TIOBE index and see where Groovy sits.  Not terribly high (#41) but not too bad for a relatively new language.  Certainly higher than many others with much longer pedigrees.  The TIOBE index also has a couple other interesting notes:

The [...]

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