Current status and some thoughts about the future of mixins in Groovy

Great example how powerful tool helps to solve hard problem

New features in Groovy are still coming

Analisis of even almost trivial but broken test case can lead to very interesting observations.

G2One starts series of public trainings with Scandinavia. What about rest of the world?

invokedynamic from prospective of Groovy Core Developer

I'm here to tell you how Groovy has proven to be a tool capable of great strides.

Do you need a software architect in a project with Grails? Yes, you do. But may be you don't need a full time architect. I have identified several scenarios:

InfoWorld writes about Grails 1.0 release

Great interview with Graeme Rocher

This week is very interesting for Groovy and Grails. A lot of interesting news related to Groovy and Grails came already and some more are coming next week. Does all that mean that we are in front of next big thing?

Grails eXchange 2007, London October 17th - 19th Grails eXchange is promising to be the Web 2.0 event for Java developers in the UK.

Very interested team announced today on the Groovy and Grails mailing-lists that G2One, Inc. is born. The company will provide training, support, consulting, and commercial products around Groovy and Grails, making G2One the official source for Groovy and Grails expertise!

Useful poll and interesting results

Today I realized what we (or may be just I) live in very strange world. Let me describe why.

It is a first of several articles dedicated to the problem mentioned in the subject.

If you are already using Jetbrains popular Java IDE for your Bindows development you are in luck. If not, now is the time to take a good look at it.

During the panel discussion yesterday at the Minneapolis NFJS show, one of the questions that came up was "How many of you use Eclipse?" Almost everyone in the audience of about 250 attendees raised their hand. I then asked "How many of you would use it if you had to pay $500 for it." Sadly no one raised their hand.

"I feel like it is my duty to try to turn people on to things that make their life better. That's part of what being a speaker is about" "Like Venkat says, many people using Eclipse are in a bad arranged marriage. It's hard to drum up passion for an arranged marriage."

IntelliJ IDEA 7 Milestone 1 introduces multiple new features and improvements in Java EE support, including Spring and Hibernate, code analysis, extended version control support, including Rational ClearCase integration, enhanced debugging, code search, usability and performance.

One more opinion on Java IDE

Nice poem and picture about JavaLobby

Did you ever expect to see plugin for Eclipse developed by creators of IntelliJ IDEA? Not in this life? But it happened.

See the Live Rails Demo that shows the latest features and improvements in action.

Interesting (or unusual) point of view on IDE competition.