January GroovyMag out

January 4, 2009

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 In Action – Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook

This issue clocks in at 40 pages, and is pretty content-rich, if I do say so myself. Unlike many other tech magazines, we don’t rely on advertising. Yeah, I know, you kinda like looking through ads sometimes. Go to the web for about 9 seconds and get your fill, then come back to GroovyMag.

Honestly, it’s not like we have a strict ‘no ads’ policy – there’s one ad in the December and January issues each, and we might have another one in February. However, the point of the magazine is content – stuff to help make you a better developer and expose you to new techniques. Helping you find new writers that you haven’t heard of before is a nice side benefit of publishing Groovymag.

The first couple issues I was a bit embarrassed by having ‘only’ 33 or 36 pages. And this issue, with 40 pages, still is small compared to many magazines you get on the newsstand. But then I compared GroovyMag with an ASP magazine I picked up. Cover price is $6.95 (IIRC) for 60+ pages, but 20 of them were ads. Dollar for dollar, I think we’re delivering a pretty good value. And apparently many of you do too, judging by the growing number of purchases between November, December and now January.

If you’ve purchased your January GroovyMag already – thank you! If not, what are you waiting for? Grab it now!

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