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Groovy in Action now available in Safari Books Online
Groovy in Action is now available the Safari online library.
For those, who haven't heard about Safari, yet: it is an online library where you can manage a personal "bookshelf". The number of books and the time available for reading each is determined by the kind of account you subscribe for. Yes, this costs some money.
One of the cool benefits of safari is that you can search all-across your bookshelf and that the library contains a wealth of books from a growing number of technical publishers. Since recently, Manning is also among this fine circle, such that the popular "in Action" and "in Practice" books are also available.
enjoy reading
Dierk
For those, who haven't heard about Safari, yet: it is an online library where you can manage a personal "bookshelf". The number of books and the time available for reading each is determined by the kind of account you subscribe for. Yes, this costs some money.
One of the cool benefits of safari is that you can search all-across your bookshelf and that the library contains a wealth of books from a growing number of technical publishers. Since recently, Manning is also among this fine circle, such that the popular "in Action" and "in Practice" books are also available.
enjoy reading
Dierk
Categories: Tech
Groovy in Action #3 top seller at JavaOne 2008
JavaOne is a really great conference: some many great people, talks, and discussions about innovation and latests Trends.
JavaOne also has it's own bookstore, the "digitalGuru". On Wednesday, the second official conference day, they published the top sellers so far and guess what: Groovy in Action has finished #3 !
The only sad side of the story is that digitalGuru didn't order enough copies in advance, so they ran out of GINA copies by Wednesday noon. They take orders, though...
It is certainly great that they have sold all their copies but they could have given so many more attendees the chance to buy a book with 20% discount on site. Also, since no more copies can be sold, GINA will certainly drop in the top seller list at the end of the conference.
The really good news is that people show so much interest in Groovy and you hear on the floor that Groovy is now considered the "default choice for dynamic programming on the Java platform".
Now I'm off to prepare the talk that Sun has chosen to present a second time because it has been so successful on Wednesday: "Going mobile with JavaFX, Groovy, and Google Android". The repeating session is scheduled for Friday, 1.30 pm in room E 302.
Exciting times
--Dierk
JavaOne also has it's own bookstore, the "digitalGuru". On Wednesday, the second official conference day, they published the top sellers so far and guess what: Groovy in Action has finished #3 !
The only sad side of the story is that digitalGuru didn't order enough copies in advance, so they ran out of GINA copies by Wednesday noon. They take orders, though...
It is certainly great that they have sold all their copies but they could have given so many more attendees the chance to buy a book with 20% discount on site. Also, since no more copies can be sold, GINA will certainly drop in the top seller list at the end of the conference.
The really good news is that people show so much interest in Groovy and you hear on the floor that Groovy is now considered the "default choice for dynamic programming on the Java platform".
Now I'm off to prepare the talk that Sun has chosen to present a second time because it has been so successful on Wednesday: "Going mobile with JavaFX, Groovy, and Google Android". The repeating session is scheduled for Friday, 1.30 pm in room E 302.
Exciting times
--Dierk
Categories: Tech
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