Entries from April 2008

April 25, 2008

Shameless self plug

Recently DZone has published an interview with me on Groovy and TestNG

Same day they’ve also published an interview with my good friend Venkat. Last time we’ve met we have come out with a set of improvements for Groovy that we both hope to get included as soon as possible
Posted by: Alex Popescu (aka the_mindstorm) (see twitbits)

April 13, 2008

CouchDB moving to Java… no, but FeatherDB is here

I am not sure if you got the April’s 1st CouchDB announcement:

So, after a lot of heated discussion internally, I’m somewhat sad to say that Erlang will not be used in future releases of CouchDB. We are switching the whole codebase to (…drumroll..) Java.

I don’t know how many have fallen for it (must confess that [...]