Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009
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Creating easy and secure SOAPful Web Services
Russ Miles
Russ Miles is CEO and co-founder of Reliably, where he and his team build products and services that help developers build and run reliable systems. Russ is co-founder of the free and open source Chaos Toolkit project, and is also an international consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. His most recent book, "Learning Chaos Engineering" by O'Reilly Media explores how to build trust and confidence in modern, complex systems by applying chaos engineering to surface evidence of system weaknesses before they affect your users.
Tareq Abedrabbo
Tareq is Chief Technical Officer at OpenCredo. He is continually involved in the delivery of innovative projects, frequently incorporating NoSQL/Big Data and Cloud platforms, to a wide range of organisations. His approach is highly pragmatic and hands-on, and focuses on problem solving and delivering value to his clients.
Clustering a Grails Application for Scalability and Availability
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.
Building mobile web application with Grails
Sébastien Blanc
Sébastien is the author of the iWebkit (plugin) and discovered Grails in 2006 during Javapolis (now Devoxx). Ever since then he has not been able to stop using it! (in a good way). Sébastien is an active member of the NLGUG (The Dutch Groovy&Grails
Gradle Deep Dive
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.
Eclipse-based tools for Groovy and Grails
Christian Dupuis
Christian is a Principal Software Engineer for SpringSource and is the leader of the Tools Team responsible for SpringSource development tools including SpringSource Tool Suite. Since 2004 Christian has led the well known Spring IDE open source proje
Code kata: improving your Groovy kung-fu workshop
Dierk Koenig
Dierk König works as a fellow for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is a committer to Groovy and Grails, and a manager of the open-source Canoo WebTest project. He is the lead author of "Groovy in Action" book.
Groovy, to infinity and beyond!
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.
Create slick UIs for your Grails apps with GWT
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.
Building Killer RIAs with Flex and Grails
Tomas Lin
Tomas Lin is a Grails developer at BSkyB. He has worked with Groovy and Grails extensively on projects like Secret Escapes, Suzuki.ca, Cruiseline fans, Dan Aykryod Wines and Empora.com
Welcome message
Russ Miles
Russ Miles is CEO and co-founder of Reliably, where he and his team build products and services that help developers build and run reliable systems. Russ is co-founder of the free and open source Chaos Toolkit project, and is also an international consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. His most recent book, "Learning Chaos Engineering" by O'Reilly Media explores how to build trust and confidence in modern, complex systems by applying chaos engineering to surface evidence of system weaknesses before they affect your users.
ParkBench Panel Discussion with Pizza & Drinks
Russ Miles
Russ Miles is CEO and co-founder of Reliably, where he and his team build products and services that help developers build and run reliable systems. Russ is co-founder of the free and open source Chaos Toolkit project, and is also an international consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. His most recent book, "Learning Chaos Engineering" by O'Reilly Media explores how to build trust and confidence in modern, complex systems by applying chaos engineering to surface evidence of system weaknesses before they affect your users.
The Grails Plugin System: Plug into productivity
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.
Keynote: Grails, into the clouds. Modularity viewed from above!
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 DSLs: Marriage of High Essence and Groovy Metaprogramming
Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies.
Interview with Venkat Subramaniam and Russell Winder
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.
Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies.
Gant, the lightweight and Groovy targeted scripting framework
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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Groovy, to infinity and beyond!
Featuring Guillaume LaForge
Guillaume Laforge's keynote on "Groovy, to infinity and beyond!" focused on all the novelties in Groovy 1.6. We'll also have a look at what's ahead of us, for Groovy 1.7
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Gant, the lightweight and Groovy targeted scripting framework
Featuring Russel Winder
In this talk we will look at the Groovy techniques used in Gant to provide the functionality it does. Particular emphasis will be placed on using (or not) the metaclass system, and how to design (or more likely evolve) a domain specific language (DSL) to be well supported by the Groovy language.
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Building mobile web application with Grails
Featuring Sébastien Blanc
In this talk Sebastien Blanc, developer of the iWebkit (plugin), will show how building mobile web applications with Grails is as easy as pie (the food, not the calculation). Sebastien will describe the anatomy of a mobile web app and then quickly move into building an actual mobile application...
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Clustering a Grails Application for Scalability and Availability
Featuring Burt Beckwith
How is your lone web server going to handle all the traffic you'll get when it lands on Slashdot or the front page of Digg? Probably not well. To prepare for all of this popularity you're going to need multiple servers, but there's more to it than buying hardware.
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Building DSLs: Marriage of High Essence and Groovy Metaprogramming
Featuring Venkat Subramaniam
DSLs or Domain Specific Languages focus on a domain or a particular problem. They serve as an effective human-machine interaction tool as they're highly expressive. In this fast paced highly interactive talk you will learn the characteristics and types of DSLs, the challenges in designing...
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Code kata: improving your Groovy kung-fu workshop
Featuring Dierk Koenig
While preparing the second edition of Groovy in Action, Dierk once again worked systematically through the language and came across a number of new features that slipped by his attention when they were added. This talk will present those features in a workshop-like manner with demos, live coding...
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Eclipse-based tools for Groovy and Grails
Featuring Christian Dupuis
Building on top of the greatly improved incremental Groovy Eclipse Plugin, recently the first version of Grails tools was integrated into the free SpringSource Tool Suite. This session will introduce the tools and show how you can be even more productive working with Groovy and Grails and proper...
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ParkBench Panel Discussion with Pizza & Drinks
Featuring Russ Miles
After a brief serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold the second ParkBench Panel discussion of the conference, to discuss ideas, things we learned, things we would like to hear more about, things to take away after the conference. Ask your questions to the speakers of the afternoon's...
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Keynote: Grails, into the clouds. Modularity viewed from above!
Featuring Graeme Rocher
Graeme's keynote will focus on the recent Grails 1.2 release, including features such as GORM named queries, Ivy-based dependency resolution, named URL mappings and the project documentation and metadata system. Graeme will also discuss the ongoing development of Grails 2.0 and the focus on...
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Create slick UIs for your Grails apps with GWT
Featuring Peter Ledbrook
GWT is a powerful toolkit from Google that enables you to create rich and dynamic user interfaces for the browser using Java. There's no need to learn a new language (Javascript) and you can keep your existing Java IDE and tools.
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Creating easy and secure SOAPful Web Services
Featuring Tareq Abedrabbo and Russ Miles
In this talk, Tareq and Russ explain how the Spring-WS Grails plugin makes creating contract-first, document oriented web services super-easy by bringing together the power and flexibility of the Spring-WS framework and Grails.
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Interview with Guillaume LaForge and Mac Liaw
Interview with Guillaume LaForge and Mac Liaw.
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Gradle Deep Dive
Featuring Hans Dockter
Gradle combines the flexibility of Ant with a build-by-convention approach a la Maven. But both implemented in a more powerful and less restrictive way. In this session you will learn about Gradle's rich domain model, which provides a true build language.
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Building Killer RIAs with Flex and Grails
Featuring Tomas Lin
Adobe Flex is a Rich Internet Application framework that allows developers to build robust and powerful applications for the web and the desktop. In this talk, Tomas Lin discusses the major technologies and tools available within the Grails / Flex ecosystem and dive into building a simple and fun...
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The Grails Plugin System: Plug into productivity
Featuring Graeme Rocher
Grails is more than just a web framework, it is a complete platform and API for runtime configuration. This talk, by Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, will demonstrate Grails' modular architecture and how to hook into runtime configuration to adapt your application based on its environment...
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ParkBench Panel Discussion with Pizza & Drinks
After a swift serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold the second ParkBench Panel discussion, to discuss ideas, stuff we learned during the afternoon and stuff we would like to hear more about. Delegates will not only be able to ask their questions to the speakers of the expert talks, but...
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Interview with Venkat Subramaniam and Russell Winder
Featuring Venkat Subramaniam and Russel Winder
Interview with Venkat Subramaniam and Russell Winder
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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 2012
Two days in London
Join Skills Matter for the fifth annual Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012. Taking place over the 13th & 14th December the eXchange will be held at The Crypt in Clerkenwell.
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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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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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