Groovy
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Overview
Programming Groovy is easy to start with. This reference of best practices and idiomatic solutions smoothly guides you to the next step of achieving more expressive solutions that fully leverage the power of the language. Simply looking up proven solutions for everyday tasks goes beyond general IDE support.
Suggested solutions range from working with standard data types like objects, strings, numbers, collections, ranges, and maps, through dealing with regular expressions, operators, closures, and meta-programming facilities up to library support for threading, external processes, I/0, networking, user interfaces, XML, and databases.
About the Author
Dierk Konig is a committer to the Groovy and Grails project since its early days and lead author of the renowned "Gina" (Groovy in Action) book. He works for Canoo Engineering AG in Basel, Switzerland, as software developer, mentor, and coach. He enjoys his daily hands-on work in software projects as well as publishing in leading magazines and speaking at international conferences.
Dierk holds degrees in both, business administration and computer science, and has worked as a professional Java programmer for over 10 years while always keeping an eye on evolving languages. He is an acknowledged reviewer and/or contributor to numerous leading books on the topics of Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, Groovy, and Grails. His strong focus on delivering quality software led him to founding the open-source Canoo WebTest project and managing it since 2001. Whenever time allows, you will find Dierk outdoors marveling at the wonders of nature.
Publications
Groovy in Action, together with Guillaume Laforge, Jon Skeet, Paul Kind, and Andrew Glover, Manning Publications, 2007
Groovy im Einsatz, Hanser, 2007
Groovy Series in JavaMagazin (German), 2007, http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/suche/?xv_query=Dierk
Groovy Usage Patterns, OJBEKTspektrum 3/2008
Projects
o Groovy: http://groovy.codehaus.org
o Grails: http://grails.org
o Canoo WebTest: http://webtest.canoo.com
Blogs and Websites
o blog: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/A368TUB0Q1IE3F/rss.xml/ref=cm_blog_rss_b/002-5048096-6493656
o podcast Groovy Series: http://hansamann.podspot.de/rss
o website: http://www.canoo.com/


Comments
mariam123 replied on Wed, 2009/06/17 - 11:40am
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