* Welcome Scott Davis

[David O'Meara]

This week, we're delighted to have Scott Davis helping to answer questions about the new book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java.


The promotion starts Tuesday, February 19th 2008 and will end on Friday, February 22th 2008.


We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Pragmatic Bookshelf.


Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!


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[S Davis]

Happy to be here. Between the Groovy Grails Experience on 2/21-2/23 in Reston, VA and the Groovy Recipes book promo here at the JavaRanch, it's gonna be a busy week.

I'm looking forward to everyone's questions.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Welcome Scott!

[David O'Meara]

Enjoy your (busy) week!

[Burk Hufnagel]

Originally posted by S Davis:
Happy to be here. Between the Groovy Grails Experience on 2/21-2/23 in Reston, VA and the Groovy Recipes book promo here at the JavaRanch, it's gonna be a busy week.

How is attendance at the 2G Experience. I wanted to go but time and money prevented it. Do you think Jay will take it on the road to other cities like NFJS?

[Dan Sline]

Scott,

Welcome and thank you for joining the forum.

Also, your presentation at the Austin No Fluff Just Stuff kick started my interest in Groovy and saved me countless hours of work.

I now try to use Groovy instead of Java whenever possible.

Thanks again Scott!

SCJP, SCJD

[S Davis]

We've got over 160 people here this week for the Groovy/Grails Experience. I'm _thrilled_ to see that level of interest.

There is plenty of Groovy/Grails content at the NFJS show every weekend in a different city (yes, even Austin!) Where G2X is a bit different is that we've been able to draw presenters in internationally. Graeme Rocher is here from the UK (tech lead for Grails), and we have folks in from Germany, Romania, and even Australia. That's a bit more problematic to do over a quick weekend...

If the interest remains high, we are considering a second G2X in the fall -- maybe on the left coast since we're in the DC area now. Stay tuned...