Two recently released books I’m working through are Grails In Action and Unlocking Android, both published by Manning.
Notwithstanding the unusual covers, these are very handy, intermediate level books for their respective focuses which I’ve found useful for reference and learning.
Reviews for these books are plenty (GIA, UA) saving me the trouble, though it’s worth mentioning [...]
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07 Jul, 2009
No Fluff, Just Stuff 2009. Seattle WA
Posted by: j pimmel In: agile| development| events| grails| groovy| java| tdd
The No Fluff, Just Stuff 2009 Tour rolls into Seattle on September 18-20th. The line-up has some interesting speakers:
Brian Goetz, Author of Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Sletten, REST Expert
David Geary, Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
Howard Lewis Ship, Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind
Ken Sipe, Technology Director, Perficient, Inc. (PRFT)
Mark Richards, SOA and [...]
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