I’m putting the final touches on the “Chapter 1 Quickstart” for Grails in Action, and I think the trickiest part of a Chapter 1 is the pedagogy. Exactly how much should you cover? I’ve given this a bit of thought, and I’m convinced that most development books I read start too slow. I’m just guessing, but the average readership of Grails in Action is probably (1) Java developers keen to explore what all the fuss [...]

This blog has been appallingly quiet over the last few weeks, and there’s a simple reason for that: I’m hard at work on “Grails In Action” for Manning. This is my first book project, and I’m working with Peter Ledbrook from G2One (Grails Core committer, GWT Plugin, JSecurity plugin, Profiling plugin) on producing a real “in the trenches” guide to developing Grails applications from scratch. So What’s in? Quite a lot. Section One gives you [...]