We have gotten tons of positive feedback on our video interviews with thought-leaders in the software industry. It's nice to put a face and a voice to the developers of the software you use on a daily basis.
These interviews are now available on mobile devices as well (iPads, iPhones, etc.). Enjoy!
Scott is speaking about CouchDB and Grails at the Central Ohio Java Users Group on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Hope to see you there.
Tim Berglund will be speaking on Gaelyk, Grails, Liquibase, and more at the Rich Web Experience this week in Florida. Hope to see you there.
Back from his tour of Ireland, Tim Bergland is back in Colorado speaking to a hometown crowd at Uber Conf.
Hear Tim talk about "Gaelyk: Cloud-Based Apps With Groovy", "Practical Agile Database Development", and more. Hope to see you there!
Tim Berglund has been chatting up the Irish attendees at Epicenter 2010 in Dublin, whether it's live coding an entire Grails presentation, talking about Microformats and the Semantic Web, turning them on to HTML5, or showing them how Groovy + Google App Engine = Gaelyk.
Don't worry, though. He'll be back stateside soon enough. You can catch him next week at UberConf in Denver and across the US on the NFJS tour.
I love chatting with Sven and Glen over at GrailsPodcast.com. Their normally orderly show is thrown into complete chaos every time I show up. This time was no different.
Our conversation was all over the map -- Getting Started with Grails (2nd edition), the Groovy/Grails development work we're doing over at Closely.com, the plaintive wails of a conflicted Apple FanBoy, the future of HTML5, and much more.
You can listen to the podcast now. Enjoy!
Software teams spend a great deal of time making decisions that place enormous amounts of capital on the line. Team members and leaders owe it to themselves to learn how to make them well.
Hear Tim Berglund talk about "Decision Making" at the Denver Java Users Group on May 12, 2010.
You've been asking for a public Grails class, and here it is! ThirstyHead will be in Seattle offering a 3-day Mastering Grails class on May 25-27, 2010. Register now before the class fills up.
We'll cover the latest version of Grails (1.2.2 as of now), and we'll be teaching out of our latest book, Getting Started with Grails.
The class is very hands-on -- you bring your laptop, and we'll make sure that you get Groovy and Grails (and Java) installed, as well as the IDE or text editor of your choice. This is not a "watch someone else do the typing for you" kind of class. The detailed labs ensure that you are comfortable getting your first (or your latest) Grails application written and deployed.
Register now, and we'll see you in Seattle!
The behavior-driven development (BDD) testing framework easyb -- founded by ThirstyHead's own Andy Glover -- just hit version 0.9.7. If you are interested in leveraging the flexibility of Groovy to test your Java code, look no further than the easyb DSL.
There are plenty of examples and documentation included in this release. There are plug-ins for IntelliJ and Eclipse. So what are you waiting for? Download easyb and take it out for a spin. You won't be disappointed.
If you aren't taking the bus or the train to work, why not? In The route to smart transit, Scott Davis shows you websites, web services, iPhone apps, and more that make it easy to make public transportation a part of your everyday commute.
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