An introductory article on the Groovy language has been posted at IBM’s developerWorks website. I have only skimmed it briefly so far, but I definitely need to take a closer look at this article as well as at Groovy in general. Groovy is a dynamic language that runs on the JVM. It looks similar to Java but without many of its restrictions, and thus closely resembles scripting languages such as Ruby....
The first teaser for the upcoming “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” movie has been released. Frankly, there’s not much to see, as it does not contain any actual footage from the movie. Regardless, at least it is another sign that the work is proceeding. There is also a nice history of the movie. I still find it hard to believe that it is actually happening…
I took a look at Eclipse 3.0 over the weekend, and I have to say that I’m pretty impressed. I have been using IntelliJ IDEA for several years now, and I am a big fan of this IDE. At the same time, I love open source tools and am always happy to try something new. Eclipse has definitely come a long way since its first release - far enough that I have installed it at work today in order to try it on a real project and see how it measures up with IDEA....
Here is a very nice collection of weblog and RSS submission sites.
IntelliJ IDEA 4.5 was released a few days ago. For those of you that haven’t used it: IDEA is a truly awesome IDE - lightweight and quick, extremely intuitive and smart, and with great refactoring features, as well as solid integration with external tools such as Ant, JUnit, and various source control systems. It is an IDE for programmers that actually want to work with code, without wizards and other bloat....