It's time for another code jam! Come along to exercise those Groovy & Grails muscles in a collaborative environment and with some solid expertise from the community on hand. If you're going to Groovy & Grails Exchange 2011, even better because you can start a project here and continue it at the hackergarten evening there.

Potential projects:
• Improvements to the git plugin and integrating it into the Release plugin
• Developing a simpler, convention-based Grails logging configuration DSL not based on packages
• Any work on the grails.org application, in particular trying out functional testing with Geb

Please bring laptops!

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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011

Skills Matter is happy to announce the 5th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange, scheduled on Dec 8-9, 2011. Be a part of two days of talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming! Learn and share the latest innovative ideas, best tools and practices for enterprise web development with Groovy and Grails. Speakers already announced include Hans Dockter, Andres Almiray, Hamlet D'Arcy and more still to come.
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Dierk Koenig's Practical Groovy for Developers

Dierk Koenig's Practical Groovy for Developers Workshop will get you proficient with Groovy, Java's dynamic friend. Groovy has become the de-facto standard for dynamic programming on the Java platform. This workshop introduces you to Groovy and its areas of applicability with real-world examples.
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Dierk Koenig's Practical Grails for Developers

Dierk Koenig's Practical Groovy for Developers Workshop will get you proficient with Groovy, Java's dynamic friend. Groovy has become the de-facto standard for dynamic programming on the Java platform. This workshop introduces you to Groovy and its areas of applicability with real-world examples.
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Hans Dockter's Core Gradle

In this intensive and highly practical 3-day Gradle course, you will become familiar with all major concepts of Gradle and how to best use Gradle for simple as well as complex build scenarios. This course is packed with hands-on exercises. You will learn about the basic language elements of the Gradle Domain Specific Language (DSL), how to use Gradle's build-by-convention for plain Java and Java web projects, and how to use the Gradle plugin system. You will find out how easy it is to customize your build. You will learn about Gradle's mighty dependency management. This 3-day Gradle course has been developed by Gradle’s founder and Project lead Hans Dockter. Find out more here



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ABOUT THE GGUG

The Groovy & Grails User Group was founded in 2007, a few months prior to the first Groovy & Grails eXchange. The Groovy & Grails UG aims to meet once every month or so, providing an opportunity for Groovy & Grails experts, programmers and enthusiasts to learn, meet and discuss. The Groovy & Grails UG (UK) also discusses events and ideas on the G&G UG (UK) LinkedIN Group More about the GGUG