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The last two days in the London City area, attending the Groovy & Grails eXchange conference, has been interesting. Day 1 I’m in the processes of getting into Gradle, so it was really fun to watch Hans Docter’s two presentations about it. Gradle is the generation 3 build tool, where Maven is generation 2 and Ant generation 1, and …. Make is generation 0 I already knew about the new…

I will attend the Groovy & Grails eXchange, in London, Thu-Fri 8-9 December 2011. I’m really looking forward to it. Share

Building an Android application has its challenges. When generating a new Android project it creates, among other files, an Ant build XML script one can use to assemble the APK artifact file for loading into the emulator or a real device. This Ant build file works well as long as one goes for the standard build. However, the moment one tries to tweak the build process, one hits the wall….

Last week (11 mars 2010), I gave an evening seminar for consultant company in central Stockholm, regarding the future of Java, in the aftermath of Oracle’s acquistion of SUN. I gave my view points on the evolution of the platform and the language. My primary point was the bright future of Groovy, as the leading JVM language. Sort of, similar to how C++ replaced C, back in the beginning of…

Today I gave two seminars (2 hours each) in Stockholm. The first, before lunch, was about Cloud Computing and the second, after lunch, was an gentle introduction to Groovy and Grails. Here a the slides PDF (in Swedish) Vad är Cloud Computing? Vad är Groovy och Grails? I will repeat these seminars in Gothenburg on Thursday. Tomorrow (Wednesday) I will give a company internal seminar regarding trends in software development….