I recently ordered an ebook version of Groovy for Domain Specific Languages. It’s a book by Packt publishing regarding DSLs and how to implement them using Groovy so it’s obviously pretty interesting to me. I’ll post a proper review when I get a chance to read it next month while I’m traveling, but in the meantime, there’s a free chapter you can download if you’re interested in finding out more.

Anyone else had a chance to read this yet?

This month sees the first in a three part series of articles on Domain Specific Languages using Groovy in GroovyMag. In the first article, we look at what DSLs are, use cases for them, ideas for improving your DSL designs and a range of concepts that will help when considering/discussing DSLs. Next month will be an article showing practical examples of DSL in Groovy and then in August we’ll look at some of the engineering considerations to bear in mind when developing DSLs for real world project.

Want to know what you missed (or remember what you experienced) last month at the Gr8 conference in Denmark, Copenhagen? Check out the latest edition of GroovyMag which has a review – including interviews with the organizers.

Many thanks to Peter Ledbrook for organizing the London GGUG meeting last night. I got a chance to present on practical DSLs in Groovy and then Peter finished off the evening with a great overview of some of the cool features in 1.3 and even 1.3.1 (which had only launched earlier that same day).

Here is the deck, and the presentation was taped, so as soon as I get the URL I’ll post a link to it.

OK, now that I seem to be using this blog for real and on a regular basis, it’s time to simplify the domain name. Instead of gettinggroovy.wordpress.com (which still works), you can now just get to the blog by going to http://gettinggroovy.com.

In the next couple of months expect a series of postings regarding Domain Specific Languages in Groovy. They’ll be designed to flesh out the three article series I’ll be writing for GroovyMag. Also expect various postings on Groovy and Grails development, from simple tips and techniques to some funky ANTLR preprocessing stuff and some explorations of AST transformations in Groovy 1.7. I’ll probably also include ancillary technologies like some advanced thoughts on using git and my experiences working with Hudson for CI with Grails projects.

Oh, and there will also be some stuff on Gaelyk – really looking forward to playing with that.

So keep an eye on http://gettinggroovy.com – or just watch for the aggregated posts at the awesome http://groovyblogs.org – that’s where I follow all of my favorite Groovy/Grails blogs.