Groovy, Grails and this blog
My name is Michael Fritsch and this blog is a try to share my first experience with Groovy and Grails with everyone interested in.
Being a Technical Editor in a Software Company, I do some programming using Java, JSP, XSLT for our publication platform but I'm not a hardcore developer as Frerk is. Nevertheless, he introduced me to this new language and framework and I made my first steps.
Trying out the simple Grails example, I was impressed by the ease of development. Enter some create-domain-class commands and the like, add some properties to the class and you get a running web application. I started with the GINA-Book to learn something about Groovy and heard about functional programming and currying for the first time (yes, I know XSLT is something like a functional language. Ah, and by the way I just heard a talk on XSLT and XPath 2.0 and they seem to have great improvements compared to 1.0). I had no idea what currying was, but a colleague of mine said "Whow, currying", so it must be something good ;-)
I'm curious to learn more about Groovy and Grails and I hope I will have interesting findings to write about in this blog.