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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011: Tomas Lin & Donovan Frew on A year in the life of a Grails startup

A year in the life of a Grails startup
Secret Escapes is a private members flash sales travel site (built in Grails) that was launched in January 2010. Over the next year of the application's life, we had to quickly build functionality such as a CRM/CMS, custom theming support and AB testing. In this talk, we will talk about the technology, architecture and lessons we took away from building a real world Grails project.

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GROOVY & GRAILS EXCHANGE 2012

Skills Matter is happy to announce the 6th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange on Dec 12-13th 2012. Join us for 2 days of talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming with core committers and leading experts, including Guillaume LaForge, Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook and may others, to learn and share the latest innovative ideas, best tools and practices for enterprise web development with Groovy and Grails.

Dierk Koenig's Practical Groovy for Developers

Join this workshop to get 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

Join Dierk and learn how to build industrial-strength web applications for the JVM. Grails is the rising web application platform for the Java Enterprise Edition. This tutorial introduces application development with Grails by real-world examples.We start with basic, database-oriented web applications that we extend and finish in the course of the workshop – following the best practices that make real Grails projects successful. Our code will be mainly in Groovy, optionally enriched with Java. Grails gives us a seamless integration between both together with sophisticated IDE support.
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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

ABOUT TOMAS LIN

Tomas Lin is the CTO of Secret Escapes, a flash sales website for travel using Groovy and Grails, based in London.
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ABOUT DONOVAN FREW

Donovan Frew is a software developer at Secret Escapes, the UK's leading flash sales website for travel.
More about Donovan Frew

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

PODCAST A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A GRAILS STARTUP

This session took part at the Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011. You can view the other 35 podcasts here.

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GROOVY & GRAILS COURSES

	DIERK KOENIG'S PRACTICAL GRAILS FOR DEVELOPERS
	DIERK KOENIG'S PRACTICAL GROOVY FOR DEVELOPERS
	HANS DOCKTER'S CORE GRADLE COURSE

GROOVY & GRAILS PODCASTS

	Grails 2 Peter Ledbrook : 16th Jan 2012
	KEYNOTE - Groovy Update Guillaume LaForge : 8th Dec 2011
	Advanced Gradle Hans Dockter : 8th Dec 2011
	Getting Groovy on the Web and Desktop Andres Almiray : 8th Dec 2011
	Enterprise Gradle Hans Dockter : 8th Dec 2011
	Gaelyk Guillaume LaForge : 8th Dec 2011
	Asynchronous IO on the JVM Peter Ledbrook : 8th Dec 2011
	Spock Luke Daley : 8th Dec 2011
	The Griffon Experience Andres Almiray : 8th Dec 2011
	Metaprogramming Techniques with Groovy Jeff Brown : 8th Dec 2011
	Just Keep Passing the Messages Russel Winder : 8th Dec 2011
	KEYNOTE - Better Productivity: Grails 2. Peter Ledbrook : 8th Dec 2011
	Hacking the Spring Security Plugin Burt Beckwith : 8th Dec 2011
	Using Weceem - an embeddable Grails CMS Marc Palmer : 8th Dec 2011
	DiscoBot: Groovy on Android Erik Pragt : 8th Dec 2011

OTHER GROOVY & GRAILS EVENTS

	QCon London 2012 CONFERENCE (3 DAYS) London, Wednesday, March 7th BOOK NOW!
	Elevate Events FREE EVENT: Elevate - SAAS Cloud Platf London, Wednesday, March 7th
	Hans Dockter's Core Gradle Course 3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Luke Daley London, Wednesday, March 28th
	Managing JavaScript with Gradle FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Luke Daley London, Wednesday, March 28th
	Cool Code FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Kevlin Henney London, Monday, April 2nd
	Scandinavian Developer Conference 2012 CONFERENCE (4 DAYS) Göteborg, Monday, April 16th BOOK NOW!
	Find Your Ninja Project FREE EVENT: Cool Projects in April London, Tuesday, April 17th
	Dierk Koenig's Practical Groovy for Developers 2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Dierk Koenig London, Monday, April 23rd