Just a quick reminder that if you’ve coming to JavaOne 2009, make sure your drop by Grails Podcast BOF-3979. We’re going to be having a ball giving a Groovy/Grails/Griffon view of JavaOne, talking with a bunch of key players in the community, including Scott Davis, Dierk Koenig, Danno Ferrin, Andres Almiray, James Williams and others. We’ll be giving away books and other swag which is currently being printed.. During meal breaks, make sure you track [...]

At 12 months of insane workload, Grails In Action (aka SanGria) is finally off to the printer! It’s awesome to finally have some time and headspace again after such a long slog of going over and over the manuscript with tons and tons of edits. But I’m so happy with the end result! Peter and I have always had a vision to write an “in the trenches” Grails book that would help people get up [...]