Tag: Groovy
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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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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…
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At long last, Making Java Groovy
I guess you could say it all started with Jason Rudolph. In April of 2005, I decided to leave the training company where I worked (The Golden Consulting Group, which no longer exists) and go out on my own as an independent technical trainer. My one-person company is called Kousen IT, Inc., and if the…
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Gr8 Gr8Conf.US Was Gr8
This week I attended Gr8Conf US in Minneapolis. I did a Groovy workshop for Java developers, gave my Making Java Groovy talk, gave a talk on Grails testing, and even managed to throw in an Advanced Groovy Tips and Tricks talk at the last minute when Guillaume Laforge was unable to travel. (Guillaume said he…
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A Groovy Chuck Norris Script
This week I’m at UberConf (http://uberconf.com), a truly alpha-geek experience with sessions morning, afternoon, and evening. On Tuesday I did a day-long tutorial on Groovy for Java developers, which was really fun. I love teaching Groovy to existing Java developers. Sometimes they get tears in their eyes at how much easier life can be. 🙂…
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Categories, old and new, and status of Making Java Groovy
My book, Making Java Groovy, is almost finished. I mean, I’m done, except that I’m not. (Picture Michael Corleone in “Godfather, Part III”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”) I thought I was essentially done in early June, after I turned in the last chapter. Then the reviews came…