I am a Java Champion and the author of the books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You”, (Pragmatic Bookshelf), “Kotlin Cookbook”, (O’Reilly Media), “Modern Java Recipes” (O’Reilly Media), “Gradle Recipes for Android” (O’Reilly Media), and “Making Java Groovy” (Manning), as well as over a dozen video courses at Safari Books Online. I’m a regular member of the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference tour and have given talks all over the world. Through my company, Kousen IT, Inc, I’ve taught training courses to and worked with thousands of developers.
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Groovy Weather: A New Groovy Example at Java.net
One of the main goals of Making Java Groovy is to show Java developers how much Groovy can make their lives easier. To that end, I just published a blog post (through Manning’s account) over a Java.net entitled, Groovy Weather: POGOs, Gson, and Open Weather. The blog post comes with a coupon code for 45%…
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Serving jokes locally with Ratpack and MongoDB
In two previous posts, I discussed applications I created that were simple client-side front ends for the Internet Chuck Norris Database (ICNDB), located at http://icndb.com. This post gives the details of the local server I created, using Groovy, MongoDB, and the cool Ratpack project (note new URL). The earlier posts contained parts of that app,…
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Making Java Groovy: A Celebrity (Non-)Endorsement
Several of my book author friends on the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour told me that writing a book would open doors for me. That doesn’t explain, though, why I seem to insist on climbing through windows. I mean, writing Making Java Groovy put me on the NFJS tour, helped me become a speaker at…
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Making Java Groovy, the Listicle
[Note: I accidentally published this the first time before it was ready. It’s updated now.] Unlike my previous posts about Making Java Groovy, this post concerns one of my Silly Marketing Ideas (SMI)*. The goal is to break out from the Groovy community and start selling to the larger Java community. Actually, I’m already doing…
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Carlos Ray and Spring’s RestTemplate
Normally I prefer causing trouble to getting in trouble, but this time the temptation is just too great. In my last blog post, I described how I made an Android app that was a front-end on the ICNDB web site, the Internet Chuck Norris Database, only to receive a take-down email from Patton Boggs, LLP,…
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Making Java Groovy: ratpack, MongoDB, and Chuck Norris
Before I get to the good parts of this post (the technical content), let me take care of a few marketing issues. First, as I mentioned in my last post, I gave my “Making Java Groovy” presentation at JavaOne last week. If you were there and you haven’t completed your Session Surveys, please do so.…
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Making Java Groovy at JavaOne 2013
Monday morning I gave my “Making Java Groovy” presentation at JavaOne in San Francisco. This is my first trip to JavaOne, and the sheer size of it is rather overwhelming. Of course, it’s also obvious at almost every turn that JavaOne is the weak sister of Oracle Open World, but hey, it could have been…
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Making Java Groovy: JavaRanch this week
This week Making Java Groovy is the featured book at JavaRanch, where I’ve been a member for many years. JavaRanch is yet another of Kathy Sierra’s (and Bert Bates’s) contributions to the community, which started out as a certification study site and evolved into an excellent message board. Until StackOverflow came along, it was my…
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Trains on the Range
I’m at SpringOne2GX this week, but this morning before my first presentation I noticed the following in my Twitter feed: First of all, I think that’s the first time anything of mine has ever appeared in @DailyGrailsTip, so yay for me. On the other hand, the link is to a script that isn’t terribly self…
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Making Java Groovy: Operator Overloading
This is partly a spoiler for my “Making Java Groovy” talk that I normally do at NFJS events and plan to use in my similar talk at JavaOne, but to celebrate the book going to the printer I thought I’d try to contribute something technical here. I’ve always felt that one of the keys to…