In the mail from Manning this week, Groovy in Action, nicely timed to follow up on the 1.0 release. I still haven’t made up my mind about Groovy, so I’m watching the community with interest. For example, Alex Brown’s Bulk Programmatic Conversion of Photos from flickr to SmugMug. There are a bunch of interesting issues all mixed up here: Yahoo’s identity ploy, wildly-contrasting Web programming interfaces, choosing from the lengthy list of Java XML-processing alternatives; and of course, watching Groovy at work. I have to say the source code is real easy to read; oddly, what it makes me wish for is regex literals in Java. Hmm, it’s not obvious to the casual eye when you declare variables and when you don’t; I’m sympathetic to the optional-declaration idea though. I guess I’ll have to have a look at the book; it was cracking the Pickaxe book’s covers that dropped me onto the slippery Ruby slope.
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From: Claus (Feb 07 2007, at 05:16)
I have yet to see an actual argument why the account switchover deserves to be called a "ploy".
Anyone care to point me at one. I don't think the Jimbo Wales/Bruce Sterling variety of answer "we liked it better when we where shopping in a small shop" works past the emotion. All you base are belong to Yahoo for a while after all.
Also, I can't seem to remember the same outrage when Writely turned into Google docs or Blogger started to persuade users to use their Google login.
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