Interview with Dr. Paul King and Jon Skeet about Groovy

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Interview about the Groovy programming language with Dr Paul King and Jon Skeet. Paul is a Managing Director and Principal Consultant for ASERT, an Australian company specializing in helping its customers leverage emerging technologies, and Jon is a software engineer and inveterate technological dabbler who happens to specialize in Java and C# development. They are both contributing authors to a new book from Manning called Groovy in Action along with Dierk Koenig, Guillaume Laforge and Andrew Glover who unfortunately couldn't make it today.

• The Groovy Language home page

• http://groovy.codehaus.org/

• Community Mailing Lists

• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Mailing+Lists

• The Groovy Developer Conference #3 - Happening this week in Paris

• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/

GroovyJSR/GroovyDevCon+3

• Grails - a Ruby on Rails inspired framework that uses Groovy

• http://grails.codehaus.org/

• The Book!

• http://www.manning.com/koenig/

• IDE Plugins:

• Eclipse - http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
• NetBeans - http://groovy.codehaus.org/NetBeans+Plugin
• General IDE and Edit support (IDEA, JEdit, JSwat, etc.) - http://groovy.codehaus.org/IDE+Support

Blogs, etc.:

• Jon Skeet

• http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon.skeet/

• Dr. Paul King

• ASERT home page: http://www.asert.com/

• Upcoming Groovy training: http://www.asert.com/training/java/GV110.htm

• Dierk Koenig

• http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/

A368TUB0Q1IE3F/ref=cm_blog_blog/

102-7591848-0814504

• Guillaume Laforge
• Full blog - mixed language - http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/

• (English Only) http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/?catid=2

• Andrew Glover (the man loves disco...)

• http://thediscoblog.com/

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse

• Theme Music:

  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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