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[Coding the Architecture] Just a short note to plug a handful of sessions that Kevin and I are presenting at the upcoming Software Architect 2008 conference, 3rd-5th June, London. 1. Coding the Architecture : From Developer to Architect The first is a re-run of our ...
Let's get Groovy, baby
The last session I went to yesterday was an overview of Groovy. James and Rod did an excellent presentation but personally I'm still undecided about where I stand on Groovy. I can see that it's going to be useful for quickly scripting up little applications but I can't see how it's going to be useful for me as a developer, although I know that's not the case for a lot of people.
Regardless of that, you can't deny that the guys have done some very, very clever stuff here - dynamic bytecode generation, dynamic typing, closures. Wow.