Technology Cafe

These are the few user groups that I go to or keep track of regularly to see if they are discussing a topic that is of specific interest to me.

NEJUG

New England Java User group. It has been there almost for ever. They have some excellent speaker line up and its a very active user group. [...]

Today I wrote my first meaningful program in Groovy-

It was a small script to extract some information from a XML

It took me the same time to learn Groovy and code this script- the same time it would have taken me to do it in Java.

The brevity of the program was breathtaking. Few lines of code- [...]

Last night I downloaded and got my first sample program running on grails.

I had been reading about grails for a while- so decided to check on the hype myself

And I was…fairly surprised- pleasantly to see what it had to offer

The time between downloading grails and having it up and running with a small program, not [...]