Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012
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Griffon Jumpstart
Andres Almiray
Andres is a Java/Groovy developer, Java Champion, co-author of "Griffon in Action", and has more than 12 years of experience in software design and development.
Securing Grails Applications
Burt Beckwith
Burt Beckwith has been a software developer for 15 years, most of that as a JVM developer, and for the last five years working with Grails and Groovy. He is a core developer on the Grails team at SpringSource, and has created over 40 Grails plugins.
Under the Hood: Using Spring in Grails
Burt Beckwith
Burt Beckwith has been a software developer for 15 years, most of that as a JVM developer, and for the last five years working with Grails and Groovy. He is a core developer on the Grails team at SpringSource, and has created over 40 Grails plugins.
Type checking your DSLs
Cédric Champeau
Cédric Campeau is a principal engineer at Gradle, Inc. where he works on improving the open-source project of the same name. He is also a core committer of Apache Groovy, and spent more than three years working full time on developing the language at Pivotal, where he implemented features like the static compiler, traits, Android support, AST transformations, and type checking extensions.
Gradle - The Innovation Continues
Hans Dockter
Hans Dockter is the founder and project lead of the Gradle build system and the CEO of Gradleware Inc, a company that provides training, support and consulting for Gradle and all forms of enterprise software project automation in general.
Debugging Grails Database Performance
Tom Dunstan
Currently working at Energized Work, Tom is a software developer with many years of experience in Java, J2EE, Spring and Groovy/Grails. He is the author of the Sham test data library and grails plugin, and has also contributed to the PostgreSQL proje
Groovier testing with Spock
Robert Fletcher
Rob Fletcher has been developing web apps for 15 years. He’s contributed to various open-source projects including Grails for which he worked on the core as well as developing a range of plugins.
Grails for Hipsters
Robert Fletcher
Rob Fletcher has been developing web apps for 15 years. He’s contributed to various open-source projects including Grails for which he worked on the core as well as developing a range of plugins.
Park Bench Discussion
Guillaume LaForge
Guillaume is the Groovy Project Manager. Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, the company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy / Grails and providing professional services around those technologies.
Peter Ledbrook
Peter is a long time Java developer and one of the core Grails committers. He has been developing with Grails since version 0.2 (give or take 0.1). He created the GWT Grails plugin as an exercise to see whether it was possible, but it has since grown into something that can support serious development.
Keynote on Groovy
Guillaume LaForge
Guillaume is the Groovy Project Manager. Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, the company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy / Grails and providing professional services around those technologies.
Reactive Grails - Event oriented architecture made easy
Stéphane Maldini
Working at Pivotal, Stephane is Software Architect with extensive experience aligning various OSS technologies. Multi-tasker eating tech 24/7, Stephane is interested in cloud computing, data science and messaging. He is on a mission to help organisations transform their applications into consumer-grade software. He co-founded the Reactor Project to help developers create reactive, low-latency fast data architectures on the JVM and beyond.
Groovy as a weapon of massive PAASification
Fabrice Matrat
Fabrice is a Technical Evangelist, Architect for @ Amadeus IT Group. He is also co-founder of the French Riviera GUG, write plugin for Grails such as Mobile HTML5 Scaffolding plugin. Obsessed with asynchronous behavior, pragmatic developer, he comes
Vincent Bersin
Technical Leader @ Amadeus IT Group, Vincent leads the development of customization technologies for e-commerce environments. Over the past 7 years, he has been working on high volume web-based travel reservation systems using JEE technology, and for
GPars vs wild
Aurélien Maury
Aurélien Maury is an IT Consultant at Xebia France, a Groovy technologies enthusiast and a Grails lover. He is interested in high productivity frameworks Ruby on Rails, Grails and JRuby.
User Interaction and Groovy DSL
The 3 Musket33rs
The 3musket33rs provide a Grails plugin for mobile: The Mobile HTML5 Scaffolding JSONP PhoneGap Build. The 3musket33rs are Sebastien Blanc, Corinne Krych and Fabrice Matrat.
Using Grails Platform Core
Marc Palmer
Marc is a Grails contributor, plugin developer, developer of Weceem CMS and founder of NoticeLocal.com
Theming and User Interfaces with Grails Platform UI
Marc Palmer
Marc is a Grails contributor, plugin developer, developer of Weceem CMS and founder of NoticeLocal.com
Grails Keynote
Graeme Rocher
Graeme Rocher is the co-founder and project lead for Grails. Graeme has worked in the software development field for more than 20 years and has expertise in Grails, Groovy, Web Development, Dynamic Languages and the JVM. Graeme leads the development of the Grails framework at OCI in St. Louis.
Building an ecommerce business with gr8 technologies in Latin America
Domingo Suarez Torres
Domingo Suarez is a software developer from Mexico City, where he helped to build the Groovy & Grails community. He has been developing web apps in Grails since 2008.
Contributing Back To Grails
Bobby Warner
Bobby is an active member in the Grails community and blogs frequently about Grails topics at bobbywarner.com. He has been developing web applications for over ten years and using Grails for the last three. He has been key to bringing Groovy and Grai
Leveraging Social Media in Grails
Bobby Warner
Bobby is an active member in the Grails community and blogs frequently about Grails topics at bobbywarner.com. He has been developing web applications for over ten years and using Grails for the last three. He has been key to bringing Groovy and Grai
vert.x - Effortless asynchronous application development for the modern web and enterprise
Stuart Williams
Stuart is a results driven technology leader with over fifteen years of experience in software and enterprise application development. He is also well versed in architecting complex systems, public and private cloud, increasing market share, profitability and performance of software solutions with capabilities to manage large teams; provide solution design and application development across multiple environments in the retail and financial industry segments.
Why Groovy when Java 8 (or Scala), or…
Russel Winder
Russel is an ex-theoretical physicist, ex-UNIX system programmer, ex-academic, ex-independent consultant, ex-analyst, ex-author, ex-expert witness and ex-trainer. Russel is still interested in programming and programming languages, and all things parallel and concurrent. And build.
He's actively involved with GPars, Me TV, and various bits and pieces of SDR. Russel likes working with Python, Ceylon, Kotlin, D, Go, Rust, and C++17.
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Keynote on Groovy
Featuring Guillaume LaForge
As is tradition, Guillaume LaForge will open the Groovy & Grails eXchange with an update on all things Groovy!
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Grails for Hipsters
Featuring Robert Fletcher
In this talk I'll demonstrate how to integrate a curated selection of the latest & greatest technologies to develop a cutting edge Grails application that will be the envy of scenester developers everywhere. With vert.x for asynchronous server side code, websockets for pushing content to...
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Griffon Jumpstart
Featuring Andres Almiray
Griffon Jumpstart is a hands-on, heads-on-code tutorial that explains how to get started using Griffon, from the beginning up to advanced features; with a few tips an tricks sprinkled here and there that are bound to make desktop application development a joyful experience.
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Groovy as a weapon of massive PAASification
Featuring Fabrice Matrat and Vincent Bersin
Amadeus has been developing community applications, self-hosted in a SaaS model. This talk will focus on how Groovy and its extensibility mechanisms allow us to develop an extensibility framework, based on scripting technologies. We'll show how we invested in the Groovy language and rely on...
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Using Grails Platform Core
Featuring Marc Palmer
The Grails Platform Core plugin provides a raft of new APIs that make it easier to integrate plugins with each other and with applications. This talk will take you through the basics of the APIs and how you can start using them in your projects.
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Type checking your DSLs
Featuring Cédric Champeau
In this talk, we will introduce the type checking mechanism of Groovy and demonstrate some techniques that you can use to make your DSL compatible with the type checker.
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Under the Hood: Using Spring in Grails
Featuring Burt Beckwith
The Spring framework makes up the core of Grails, providing bean management, dependency injection and transaction support. Grails controllers and the web tier use and extend Spring MVC. In this talk we'll look at a "configuration over convention" approach to access the full power of...
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GPars vs wild
Featuring Aurélien Maury
Aurélien Maury, IT consultant for Xebia France will tell you about his last experience on a Grails based public website: a routing site offering train, car and plane solutions to travel through Europe.
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Theming and User Interfaces with Grails Platform UI
Featuring Marc Palmer
The Grails Platform UI plugin provides APIs for abstracting common UI elements and Theming. This powerful mechanism paves the way for your plugins and applications to expose UI that is independent of CSS and JS frameworks. The will allow you to integrate plugin UI with applications.
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Leveraging Social Media in Grails
Featuring Bobby Warner
Social media is all around us and continually expanding. Most public web applications built today will need to integrate with Facebook, Twitter, Google or LinkedIn in some way or another. As Grails developers, we have a few options readily available to us to simplify this task. This talk will...
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Gradle - The Innovation Continues
Featuring Hans Dockter
The Gradle development team have not been taking it easy since the release of Gradle 1.0. New features and innovations are constantly being added, rough edges are being smoothed and the platform continues to expand. In this talk we’ll explore the most notable additions to Gradle since the release...
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Park Bench Discussion
Featuring Guillaume LaForge and Peter Ledbrook
Towards the end of the day, just before we kick off the Hackergarten, we'll hold a ParkBench Panel discussion, which will focus on the following (and other) topics: Grails based architectures in the modern web world Concurrency & Parallelism Static compilation for Groovy You will be...
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Grails Keynote
Featuring Graeme Rocher
As per tradition, Graeme Rocher will open DAY 2 of the Groovy & Grails eXchange with a Keynote on all things Grails.
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vert.x - Effortless asynchronous application development for the modern web and enterprise
Featuring Stuart Williams
Vert.x is an event driven application framework that runs on the JVM - a run-time with real concurrency and unrivalled performance. This talk will be an introduction to the vert.x architecture, programming model, typical patterns and then a look at what's coming next in the framework and the...
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Debugging Grails Database Performance
Featuring Tom Dunstan
Knowing what your GORM query will do to your database can be difficult for even the most seasoned Hibernate expert. This talk will demonstrate the use of a grails plugin to deep dive right down to the individual SQL queries used to render a given page, so that you can see exactly what is going...
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Contributing Back To Grails
Featuring Bobby Warner
So you've read the books, built some websites and maybe even released a plugin or two... great! Now it's time to take your skills to the next level by contributing back to the community! This talk will go though the process of getting started contributing to both Grails source code and...
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Groovier testing with Spock
Featuring Robert Fletcher
Spock is a powerful and expressive testing language built on top of Groovy. This talk will be a live-coding demonstration where I will take a small Java application with a set of JUnit tests and refactor the tests into Spock specifications. I'll show the features of Spock; its concise syntax,...
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Why Groovy when Java 8 (or Scala), or…
Featuring Russel Winder
…why Groovy has to evolve and market itself in an ever changing world if it is to remain relevant. Java 8 will be a revolution in the JVM-based community, it will bring lambda expressions and a whole new library. Scala is very proud of being where Java is trying to go. Many organizations are...
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Reactive Grails - Event oriented architecture made easy
Featuring Stéphane Maldini
Let's talk hype stuff, let's shake our brains around this idea of loosely coupling things in software. Join this session if you are after ways to maximize your grails use, user experience and smoothly integrate your app in a wider architecture. Join this talk if you are maximizing your...
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User Interaction and Groovy DSL
Featuring The 3 Musket33rs
Based on a real life project concerning more than 2 millions scripts, we will show during this session how you can build an fluent and powerful DSL with Groovy. Using techniques like BaseScript, AST, bindings and command chaining, we will explain how to implement a DSL that produce an user...
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Securing Grails Applications
Featuring Burt Beckwith
When you think about securing a Grails application, you probably think of the Spring Security and Shiro plugins. But these plugins only control access to your pages and objects - what about guarding agains cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and SQL injection attacks.
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Testing Gaelyk applications
I will start with showing how to unit test Gaelyk groovlets using gaelyk-spock library. Then we will focus on the latest facilitations of writing functional tests for Gaelyk applications using Geb framework. Learn how to modify the state of the application under test using Gaelyk Remote and which...
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Building an ecommerce business with gr8 technologies in Latin America
Featuring Domingo Suarez Torres
In this session, Domingo will talk about the experience acquired building an in-house solution for ecommerce in Mexico, using gr8 technologies (Groovy, Grails, GPars, Gradle).
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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2015
Two days in London
Want to hear the latest happenings in the world of Groovy and Grails? Want to stay ahead of the curve and discover the roadmap for 2015 from core committer and Groovy authority Guillaume Laforge? Then grab yourself a ticket to the annual gathering of the Groovy and Grails community in London.
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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2014
Two days in London
The Groovy and Grails eXchange has been a cornerstone conference for the London and European community since it's birth nearly 8 years ago. This year, we explore the latest innovations in the community, how you can optimise the languages powerful features, plus meet others in the community...
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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2013
Two days in London
Want to make yourself more employable by big name companies such as Sky, Wired.com and Linkedin who are implementing Groovy & Grails?
Need to keep up with the latest industry developments in object-oriented programming to stay ahead of the game?
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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011
Two days in London
Thanks to speakers, attendees and sponsors, Skills Matter's 5th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange was a great success. There was a real buzz throughout the two days, fostered by some great talks, open-space discussions, brainstorming and a very productive and creative Hackaton! We have...
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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2010
Two days in London
Join Guillaume LaForge, Graeme Rocher and others for talks and open space sessions at the 4th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange. Be part of an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise web...
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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009
Two days in London
Following on from the success in previous years this conference, which will be held on Thursday 10th December 2009 brings together the leading innovators in the Groovy & Grails community, including Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher, the leads on Groovy and Grails projects respectively, for...
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Grails eXchange 2007
Three days in London
Skills Matter are pleased to have organised the First Grails eXchange 2007! This 3-day event held in Oct 2007 was a great opportunity to get a heads-up on the latest developments in the world of Groovy & Grails and to meet interesting speakers and fellow Groovy and Grails developers.
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