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Archive for March, 2009

JavaScript Magazine – for JavaScript developers

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

JSMag March 2009WebDev Publishing is proud to announce GroovyMag’s sister publication, JSMag, has recently been released.  JSMag is a monthly PDF publication, in the style of GroovyMag, which focuses on articles and information relevant to the JavaScript community.

The first issue covers topics including:

  • ExtJS
  • Functional Programming
  • Unit Testing JavaScript
  • an overview of jQuery 1.3
  • JavaScript debugging techniques

A sampler PDF is available at the JSMag website.

GroovyMag March 2009 available

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The latest edition of GroovyMag is now available.  Contents include:

Groovy Under the Hood

Kirsten Schwark delves deep in to Groovy to show you exactly what’s going on behind the scenes.

AJAX Forms with Grails

Mo Sayed demonstrates how to make your forms more responsive with AJAX.

New GORM features in Grails 1.1

In this piece, Bashar Abdul-Jawad guides you through all the great new GORM goodness Grails 1.1 has to offer.

Grails in a J2EE World

Shawn Hartsock kicks off a series detailing the best ways to integrate Grails in to your J2EE stack, taken from his own real life experiences.

Community news

Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein.

Plugin Corner

Dave Klein shows you how to make your forms a bit more user-friendly with the Help Balloons plugin.

New Groovy and Grails training classes dates announced

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

GroovyMag will be hosting two more classes in March 2009:

Intro to Groovy: March 16, 17, 18 from 6pm-8pm (Eastern time – GMT-0500)

Intro to Grails: March 23, 24, 25 from 6pm-8pm (Eastern time – GMT-0500)

Each class is $349 and is web-based.  You simply log on and watch and chat with the instructor in real time.

Our instructor for the last set of Intro classes was Robert Fischer.  For this set we’ve got Ken Kousen, renowned Java instructor.  If you’ve ever thought about taking the plunge in to Groovy or Grails, this is the time to do it.

More information and links to sign up are at http://groovymag.com/training

GroovyMag supports Google Checkout

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

For anyone who was interested in GroovyMag earlier, but was unable or unwilling to use PayPal, Google Checkout is now an option for payment.  Some of you in some countries were having some difficulty paying with the credit card of your choice with PayPal, so this hopefully will give you some more choice.

This has gone through some testing this weekend and it looks like everything is functioning.  If you make a purchase with Google Checkout and have a problem, please email michael@groovymag.com for prompt attention.