I'm primarily a Java software developer, but I do a lot with Oracle and most recently, Groovy. (If you're a serious Java developer and you haven't seen Groovy yet, head on over there and check it out.)
One of the things that I've been working on for fun is groovytools, a collection of Groovy tools and experiments. The first of which is GPP, a Groovy port of VPP, which is an Ant and Velocity-based preprocessor. Either GPP or VPP can be a useful for code generation, mail-merge and numerous other template-based tasks. In general, I find Groovy much more convenient and less quirky to use than the venerable Velocity. In fact, the port to Groovy was extremely smooth and since then I haven't used Velocity again.
My advice to all programmers just getting started:
while(true) {
try { ... }
catch (Exception e) { ... }
}For everyone else, never give up, just keep trying!
