Tag: Making Java Groovy
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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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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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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: 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…