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It’s been almost a year since I first sat down with Scott Davis for an aboutGroovy.com interview, and the upcoming Groovy/Grails Experience seemed as good a reason as any for us to catch up.

In addition to discussing the various conference sessions in the works, we also spend a few moments exploring some relative merits of Rails and Grails. While we won’t tell you which framework is right for you, I do suggest some key features that each framework could stand to adopt from the other, and we even discuss how some of that cross-pollination is already coming to fruition.

Many thanks to Scott for having me on the podcast.

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I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Michael Kimsal for a diverse and enjoyable episode of WebDevRadio. Over the course of about 30 minutes, we tackle such topics as Groovy, Grails, Ruby, Streamlined, and the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour.

If you’ve listened to WebDevRadio in the past, you know that Michael comes primarily from a PHP and Perl background. Throw those languages in the mix with Ruby and Groovy, and that’s a whole lot of dynamic language goodness for 30 minutes of podcasting! (We try not to leave any of the low-level languages too battered and bruised, but their extra baggage has simply become too much to bear for day-to-day application development.)

While the podcast itself is obviously intended to focus on web development, in this particular interview, developer productivity may very well outshine web development as the overriding theme. We discuss the profound impact of convention-over-configuration, the future of opinionated software, and whether there’s ever such a thing as too much choice.

Many thanks to Michael for having me on the podcast.

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I recently had the chance to sit down with Scott Davis, Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com, for an interview about Grails, how I got involved with it, and what lies ahead.  It runs about 23 minutes in length, but we manage to cover quite a bit in that time frame.  We agree that we don't need one programming language/technology "to rule them all."  We discuss the origin of (and the potential future for) Getting Started with Grails, and we set the record straight on whether EJB3 is a legacy technology.  (Spoiler alert: It's not.)

Proper RSS support is coming soon for aboutGroovy.com podcasts.  In the meantime, feel free to download the MP3 directly.  

Many thanks to Scott and aboutGroovy.com for the interview. 

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Sven Haiges for an episode of the Grails podcast. We discussed the many new features (and impressive number of bug fixes) in the recent 0.3 release as well as several of the upcoming improvements slated for 0.4 and 0.5. We also talked about the overall increasing momentum of Grails, and Sven recapped last week's W-JAX 2006 conference, which attracted standing-room-only crowds for the Groovy and Grails sessions! It was a good time, and if you listen closely, you might even catch an announcement of an upcoming Grails-related publication.

Many thanks to Sven for having me on the podcast.

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