Java development 2.0 Easy EC2 (and Grails)

Fellow ThirstyHeader Andy Glover has another article out in his Java Development 2.0 series. This one is Easy EC2: Quickly create a CRUD Web application and run it on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Of course, the "quickly" part of the article is courtesy of Grails. Here is the abstract:

Provisioning an EC2 instance for hosting a Java™ Web application is a snap. In this Java development 2.0 column, you'll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance.

ThirstyHead at the Groovy Grails Experience in New Orleans

Andy Glover and Scott Davis are constantly criss-crossing the globe, speaking about Groovy, Grails, and easyb at companies and conferences. So it is rare to see them both in the same place. Not surprisingly, that place is The Groovy/Grails Experience, this week in New Orleans.

Andy is talking about easyb and RESTful web services with Grails. Scott is talking about testing with Groovy, Flex clients for Grails applications, and RESTful web services with Grails. (There must be something interesting about that whole REST + Grails situation, eh?)

Mastering Grails: Mock testing with Grails

In this Mastering Grails installment, Scott Davis shows you how to take advantage of the built-in mocking capabilities of the GrailsUnitTestCase and ControllerUnitTestCase classes included with Grails.

Mastering Grails: Creating a custom plug-in

In this Mastering Grails installment, Scott Davis shows you how to create your own Grails plug-in. Once you see how effortless it is to create a plug-in, you'll understand why more than 250 Grails plug-ins are available now, with new ones being added all the time.

Read the article here.

Interview with Ken Sipe creator of Grails JMX plugin

I was lucky enough to catch up with Ken Sipe recently. Ken is the creator of the Grails JMX plugin and a JavaOne Rockstar. We talked about Spring integration with Grails, JMX, and much more. Watch the full interview here.

Beauty in Code appears in the September issue of PragPub Magazine

If you haven't been reading PragPub Magazine, it's a new offering from the sharp folks over at the Pragmatic Bookshelf. PragPub is a free download, available in PDF, epub, and mobi formats. (The mobi format makes the magazine Kindlicious...) Once a month, it's a nice breath of fresh air with more than a hint of that "New Geek" smell.

My article, "Beauty in Code", is featured in the September 2009 issue, along side the likes of Kent Beck, Chad Fowler, Dave Thomas, and more. I sing Beatles and Bob Dylan songs in Groovy. Seriously. Check it out when you get the chance.

Interview with Stuart Halloway, author of Programming Closure and Java.next

I recently caught up with Stuart Halloway, author of "Programming Clojure" and the "Java.next" article series. We talked about how evaluating Groovy, JRuby, Scala, and Clojure eventually lead him to write a book on Clojure. Watch the full interview here.

Practically Groovy: The @Delegate annotation

The next Practically Groovy article is out: Practically Groovy: The @Delegate annotation. This puts an interesting spin on metaprogramming -- moving encapsulated class functionality out to the parent class. (It's really cooler than it sounds. Trust me!)

New series from Andrew Glover: Java Development 2.0

ThirstyHead co-founder Andrew Glover has just kicked off a new article series for IBM developerWorks called Java Development 2.0. In the first article, Hello Google App Engine, Andy explores (not surprisingly) the Google App Engine with Groovy and JDO. Future articles will examine Amazon EC2 and CouchDB.

Nice work, Andy!

Scott Davis speaking at IASA Denver

If you weren't able to make it out to JavaOne 2009 to see my "Resource-Oriented Architecture and REST" talk, I'll be giving it again at the Denver IASA meeting on Monday, August 17. Hope to see you there!