Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009
Andy Glover started writing about Groovy waaaaay back in 2004. His article series at IBM developerWorks, Practically Groovy, predated Groovy in Action and all of the other more recent Groovy books (Groovy Recipes, anyone?)
Now, Scott Davis has rebooted the series for 2009 with Practically Groovy: A DSL for Java programmers. Even more exciting, Scott has updated all of the code examples in the back catalog, making the entire series a valuable resource once again for Groovy developers looking for practical examples of how to use the language.
Scott left all of Andy's Nixon-era disco jokes in place -- just the code is modern. So take some time, break out the bell-bottoms, and revisit the old articles that you enjoyed as a youth. Or get introduced to them for the first time. Andy's tips and tricks are just as valuable and timely 5 years later.
Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009
Even though budgets are tight, your boss still expects you to keep up with the latest technology. ThirstyHead has the answer: Tech Spikes. These one-day classes, priced at just $199, give you the knowledge you need at a price you can afford.
From Struts to Grails in a day will help you bring your aging web application into the 21st century with an important twist -- rather than deleting everything and starting over from scratch, this class will show you how to incrementally upgrade things with an emphasis on reusing as much legacy code as you can.
AJAX and JSON in a day brings you up-to-speed quickly on modern web development techniques. If you are a "copy and paste" JavaScript programmer, this class will give you a deeper understanding of what is going on under the covers.
Look for the red stars at ThirstyHead.com -- they tell you that you are getting the best value for your training dollar. As we like to say, Tech Spikes allow you to, "get in, get out, and get on with it."
Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009
ThirstyHead.com is proud to announce a couple of new classes scheduled for the Reston, VA area. Andy Glover will be doing what he does best -- talking about Groovy, Grails, and easyb.
Jump into Groovy and Grails is a 2-day class that gets you up and running in these technologies in a hurry.
BDD with easyb is a 2-day class that introduces you to Behavior-Driven Development with easyb, a BDD testing framework written in Groovy.
As always, if you don't see the class you need or the city you need it in, we are just an email away.
Thursday, Feb 5, 2009
If you can't catch Scott talking about "Lizard Brain Web Design" and "DSLs in Groovy" at the BoulderJUG on Tuesday, Feb 10th, he'll be at the DenverJUG the next night -- Wednesday, Feb 11th.
Scott was hoping for the Colorado Front Range hat-trick by speaking at the Colorado Springs Open Source User Group, but a busy travel schedule crushed that dream. Instead, he'll be kicking off the NFJS tour with the Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium in Milwaukee.
Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009
Both Scott and Andy will be regulars on the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium tour this year. We'll see you in Milwaukee, St. Louis... (and the list goes on)
Friday, Jan 30, 2009
Scott talks about "Lizard Brain Web Design" and "DSLs in Groovy: Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say" at the Boulder JUG on Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009 at 6pm.
Come for the free pizza. Stay for the free ThirstyHead t-shirts.
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009
Based on your feedback, ThirstyHead is now offering classes closer to Boulder, CO. Whether you are in the Denver Tech Center or farther North, there are Groovy and Grails classes in your backyard.
We are *this* close to adding classes outside of Colorado. If you'd like us to come to your town for either public or private training, just drop us a note.
Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
easyb has been nominated as a 2008 Jolt award finalist, baby! I know I speak for the entire easyb team when I say we are truly honored to have been considered for such prestigious award.
Read the full announcement at JavaWorld.
Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
Read Andy's latest article at JavaWorld:
Shed the weight with Groovlets
Not all web applications require a full stack framework. In those instances, there is an alternative:
Groovlets. Groovlet’s are
simply servlets
without the structure of servlets. That is, you can write simple Groovy scripts and have them execute within the
context of a servlet; plus, your script has access to the normal objects you’ve come to love when coding
servlets — ServletRequest, ServletResponse, ServletContext, etc.
Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
Read Scott's latest article at IBM developerWorks:
Mastering Grails: Give your Grails applications a facelift
In this installment of
Mastering Grails, Scott Davis demonstrates how
to make drastic changes to the look and feel of a Grails application using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), templates, tag libraries
(TagLibs), and more.
