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Adam Davis
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- Oviedo, FL
- United States
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Adam Davis's Groups
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Spring Town
47 members
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Other Languages on the J…
9 members
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GatorJUG Town
30 members
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Groovy and Grails
25 members
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Web2.0 Town
19 members
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Profile Information
- How did you hear about Codetown?
- Orlando Java User Group
- What are your main interests in software development?
- Java, Spring, Groovy, Reactive, Web, AWS, Architecture
- Do you have a website?
- http://adamldavis.com
Adam Davis's Blog
Book Giveaway
Posted on November 5, 2018 at 9:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Hi! Is anyone interested in one of these books? If so please follow/retweet and tell me which book. Thanx!…
Learning Groovy and Self-publishing
Posted on May 25, 2016 at 3:00pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
What is Groovy and why should I care?
Hello again, it's me, Adam. Earlier this year, I finished my self-published book, Learning Groovy,…
ContinueJava 7 EOL
Posted on March 4, 2015 at 10:22pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).
As outlined in the Oracle JDK Support Roadmap, after April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7 to its public download sites.
This might be a good time to read …
ContinueHot New Language (Groovy)
Posted on February 28, 2015 at 3:00pm 3 Comments 2 Likes
Slightly modified from original post: http://adamldavis.com/
There’s a hot new programming language that I’m excited about. It can be used dynamically or statically-typed, your choice. It supports functional programming constructs, including first-class functions, currying, and more. It has multiple-inheritance, type inference, and meta-programming. It also integrates really well…
ContinueHappy 10th year, JCertif!
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