The second edition of “Learning Groovy” (which covers Groovy 3.0 thus the name) is now available. After months of researching, writing, and editing, it has finally gone to print! I’m really excited to announce this and I hope it spreads the love of Groovy far and wide. Groovy can be…

I had the great privilege of leading a workshop and two talks at Gr8Conf EU 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark. This was also my first time attending Gr8Conf EU (I did attend Gr8Conf US 2017). My life has finally quieted down enough now that I can write about my experience. The…

I wrote this Groovy DSL for computing the percentage by weight of elements in compounds for a little project I’m doing and decided to share it. It also includes names of all elements in periodic table. It’s an example of using Groovy’s propertyMissing method and other features to create a domain specific language. It’s covered in depth in my book, “Learning Groovy” Originally published at adamldavis.com.

About two weeks ago I was privileged to create bundles with two other authors, including Modern Java Career Bootcamp and How to Craft Interpreters. (You might notice the minimum price is a famous number) It contains four e-books that cover everything from Java 7 and 8 features, to programming a…

At its core, Ratpack enables asynchronous, stateless HTTP applications. It is built on Netty, the event-driven networking engine. Unlike many other web framework, there is no expectation that one thread handles one request. Instead, you are encouraged to handle blocking operations in a way that frees the current thread thus…

This was originally posted Feb, 2015 There’s a hot new programming language that I’m excited about. It can be used dynamically or statically-typed, your choice. It supports functional programming constructs, including first-class functions, currying, and more. It has multiple-inheritance, type inference, and meta-programming. …