Programming and politics

This morning, my co-worker Jason Swartz had the great idea of a conference focussing on JVM languages . This seemed like a particularly go...

This morning I read an excellent pair of articles by Scott Davis on metaprogramming in Groovy. It reminded me of some of the different way...

In October, I am speaking at the inaugural Strange Loop conference in St. Louis . This is not your run of the mill conference. It is organiz...

Below are the sldies. Major thanks to Charlie Nutter for great feedback and advice on the Ruby code and tuning JRuby performance. Thanks to ...

RIAs Done Right: Grails, Flex, and EXT GWT View more PDF documents from michael.galpin .

See this post about why this code is being shown. See this post for the Java version to compare against. public class GroovyReversible { ...

See this post about why this code is being shown. See this post for the Java version to compare against. public class GroovyWordSort { F...

See this post for an explanation on why this code is being shown and what kind of responses would be useful. See this post for the Java al...

It sure took me long enough, but I finally got around to writing about Grails . This article gives some introduction to Grails, but also tal...

A couple of days ago, I read Charlie's post explaining the performance boost seen in Groovy 1.6 . Reading stuff like this always leaves ...

Groovy is a swing-and-a-miss. It will go down like OS/2 did. People will say "man that Groovy language was so good, I don't know wh...

Two interesting blogs inspired this post. First, there is the amazing analysis of the great Neal Gafter . And then there is the insightful r...

There is a lot of hype this year about Scala.... Heck, even al3x is talking about it . As someone who has no problem being called a Java guy...

I guess the big news out of JavaOne today is JavaFX . The more I heard about it, the more it sounded familiar. Sure there's the obvious ...