Jon Kelly is a lead software developer at Applied Data Consultants in Eau Claire, where he spends his time designing real-time web based applications and services, sitting on them until they hatch, and then feeding them until they're ready to fly.
Chances are, if you've written any Java code, you've written a lot of Java code. If you've ever found yourself reeling with deja-vu from writing the same boilerplate Java code over and over, maybe it's time to consider a better way. Come and learn how the Groovy programming language provides simpler solutions for common problems, and smooths out a lot of the wrinkles that we all encounter in Java.