2 DAY CONFERENCE

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009

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Wednesday, 9th - Thursday, 10th December in London

13 experts spoke.
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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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