[FRIAM] Groovy presentation at Google

[Owen Densmore]

The project manager of the Groovy agile language made a presentation  
at Google recently.
   http://tinyurl.com/2x5h3y
Note that the audio has difficulty for a few minutes after the talk  
gets started, but it corrects within a couple of minutes.

Two notes:

- Its fascinating to see just how completely Groovy integrates with,  
yet expands vanilla Java.  It can add methods to existing java  
classes, allowing things like 1.hourFromNow (mashing up Integer and  
Date) and expanding Google services without subclassing.

- Similarly, its surprising to see just how wide the knowledge of a  
modern developer is!  Not just GUIs and language and standard  
libraries, but web services, REST (Flikr and Google Maps), XML, Chat/ 
Jabber, Geo Services, ... wow!

.. this all showed me just how important the Java integration and  
*modification* capability is.  I believe the other agile systems have  
similar flexibility, so its definitely a brave new world out there.

> Hi,
>
> On Monday afternoon, I gave a presentation of Groovy at Google, in  
> Moutain View.
> A special presentation for Googlers.
> Among the crowd, there were guys like Cédric Beust, Crazy Bob Lee,
> Guido Van Rossum (Python inventor), Josh Bloch, etc...
> Amazing :-)
>
> You can already find the video here:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7928622601123523881&q=type% 
> 3Agoogle+engEDU
>
> -- 
> Guillaume Laforge
> Groovy Project Manager
> http://glaforge.free.fr/blog/groovy

     -- Owen