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Groovy @ EclipseCon

Posted by: Andres Almiray on 03/19/2008
I gave my Groovy talk yesterday at EclipseCon, which I think turned out to be a good experience, surely I wasn't expecting to have the room completely packed with people :-) Most of the audience had a great background in other dynamic/scripting languages like Python, Perl and JavaScript (some Ruby) so most of the cool features were fairly known, that is until we reached Groovy's unique features as GPath and the Elvis operator (the coolest operator ever so far, people do like Elvis!).

During the short time I spent at the conference I gathered that even though it is a big conference it is rather easy to stop and chat with your peers and meet new people, which is really difficult at JavaOne, I look forward to spending more time in the remaining days.

I'm very thankful to the Eclipsecon committee for enabling this space to help spread the word on Groovy, and to all attendees on my talk I say "you have taken the red pill, be happy in the jvm, be Groovy".

Keep on Groovying!
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About Andres Almiray

Andres Almiray is a Sun Certified Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer with more than 8 years of experience in software design and development, currently working for Oracle as a Principal Software Engineer. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include software architecture, developer testing, Groovy, Spring and swing hacks. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib and EZMorph among others). Andres maintains a blog at http://jroller.com/aalmiray