Tags: Dierk König, Graeme Rocher, Grails, Guillaume Laforge, Jeremy Rayner

A lot has happened around Groovy since my last post.

First of all: Groovy has won the JAX Innovation Award 2007! This european prize honors the  most important innovation  for the  Java  platform in the last year, criteria being innovation, creativity, elegance, and practical relevance. Together with the prize comes a donation of EUR 10′000.- to the Groovy project.
I must say that the Groovy is not only proud but also very thankful for the recognition of our effort and all the great feedback from our friends like the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA team.

The next big event was JavaOne in San Francisco, where numerous talks and events around Groovy and Grails took place. My co-author Guillaume Laforge and myself delivered a Groovy talk with huge success. The 600-seats room was not big enough to accommodate all interested parties and a long queue before the door was refused to enter.
Right after that, a booksigning event was scheduled for 30 minutes that had to be extended to one hour to satisfy all wishes for autographs.

Groovy in Action sold extremely well at the conference, finishing #5 in the overall bestseller list even though it was available only half of the time.

Since JavaOne, more reviews of the book have been published.

Burk Hufnagel reviews Groovy in Action on JavaLobby with the best possible rating in all categories. Some quotes from the review:
“If you’re a Java developer, or new Groovy developer, who is interested in becoming proficient in Groovy, this book is for you. And if you’re not interested, you should be.”
“Groovy in Action is an excellent book and I highly recommend it. It’s comprehensive and written to be read.”
“Do yourself a favor: buy the book, download Groovy, and have a blast.”

Pan Pantziarka reviews Groovy in Action on RegDeveloper with verdict “highly recommended”. Quote:
“Aside from the intrinsic interest in the subject matter, it has to be said that this is a book that is very readable, engaging, and does a great job of slotting Groovy into the broader world of software development.”

Here are some more voices from the blogoshpere:

O’Reilly radar:
The noticeable trend with the mid-minor languages is that Groovy came from nowhere and has now sold 1500 copies in the first quarter of 2007.

Dielehy
From all accounts the Groovy and Grails books at JavaOne were literally flying off of the shelves, they ran out several times (I personally have been waiting for Groovy In Action since I first heard about it).

Paul
To get started, I bought the Groovy in Action book. This is very well written and was easy to work through, and covered so much information I think I’ll be going back through it many times.

keep groovin’ everybody
Dierk König

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