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GR8Conf Europe 2011

GR8Conf is an affordable conference dedicated to the Groovy dynamic language, the Grails web framework, the Griffon Swing framework, and other great technologies, such as Gradle, Spock, GPars, and more. This year, the conference is growing. We kick of the conference with a university day. Here we have two tracks, one intermediate and one advanced, with workshops and hands-on training. The intermediate will kickstart your Groovy and Grails development skills with a Groovy workshop, followed by a Grails workshop. The advanced track will feature an AST transformations workshop, followed by a Grails plugin workshop. The university day is optional. Find out more here

Dierk Koenig's Practical Grails for Developers

Dierk Koenig's 2 day workshop will teach you 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.
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Christopher Riley's Cloud Computing Fundamentals for Developers & Architect

Christopher Riley's one day Cloud Computing Fundamentals course will provide you with technical and business expertise in several cloud computing platforms. You will gain a solid footing in cloud computing origins, terminology and service offerings, as well as detailed overviews of popular cloud platforms provided by Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com and Microsoft. Architecturally, you will explore common design patterns and service quality constraints. Finally, you will examine business terms in the pricing and service level agreements of the four major vendors. The class culminates by discussing the applicability of cloud platforms for various business cases. Find out more here

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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