2 DAY CONFERENCE

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012

Topics covered at #ggx

Thursday, 13th - Friday, 14th December in London

19 experts spoke.
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Programme

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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