KEYNOTE - Groovy Update

Featuring Guillaume LaForge

Guillaume LaForge talks about improved Domain-Specific Language capabilities and the continued runtime performance improvement to make Groovy the fastest dynamic language around. He explains how more functional closures have been added in this release and gives an overview of the built-in JSON...

DiscoBot: Groovy on Android

Featuring Erik Pragt

In this session, Marcin Erdmann and Erik Pragt cover the development of a Groovy application on Android, and will provide some interesting background information on what was done to made this possible.

Getting Groovy on the Web and Desktop

Featuring Andres Almiray

Discover how both the Grails and Griffon frameworks bring back the fun to web and desktop development. Grails and Griffon share a lot of history and code, its very likely that what you learn in one framework can be done in the other and vice-versa. Both are pretty much on par when it comes to...

Gaelyk

Featuring Guillaume LaForge

Guillaume will speak to the Groovy Grails eXchange 2011 about Gaelyk, a lightweight Groovy toolkit for easily developing Groovy applications to be deployed on Google App Engine Java. We'll learn more about what the toolkit provides, how to leverage it for your own needs through some demos,...

Enterprise Gradle

Featuring Hans Dockter

This talk from the father of Gradle introduces you to the powerful concepts of Gradle through many real-world examples that are demonstrated live: advantages of declarative over imperative build systems, convention over configuration without rigidity, task definitions and dependencies, the...

Painless Desktop Application Development: The Griffon Experience

Featuring Andres Almiray

In this talk for the Groovy & Grails eXchange, Andres Almiray covers the basics to get you started with Griffon. How applications are structured and built. Then we'll cover threading, testing, deploying, handling of legacy code and even network and database integration.

Advanced Gradle

Featuring Hans Dockter

In this talk, Hans Dockter covers many Gradle power features that are particularly helpful for the real heavy lifting often needed in enterprise builds. We'll start with the concept and advantages of autowiring the Task Dependency Graph based on the inputs and outputs. Hans talks in detail...

Asynchronous IO on the JVM

Featuring Peter Ledbrook

Node.js has now arrived for the JVM with the Vert.x framework, which has a Groovy API that takes full advantage of closures. Find out what Vert.x is, what you can use it for, and how to use it from Groovy.

Smarter Testing with Spock

Featuring Luke Daley

In this talk, Luke Daley explains Spock's approach to state-based, data-driven, and behavior-based testing. Next, we will explore some of Spock's extensions, in particular the Grails plugin and the Spring TestContext Framework integration. Finally, we'll look under the covers of Spock...

Just Keep Passing the Messages

Featuring Russel Winder

In this talk, Russel Winder looks at some problems coded up using GPars and compares them with old-style techniques. The result will undoubtedly be a huge move to use of GPars for all Java and Groovy based concurrency and parallelism.

Powerful Metaprogramming Techniques with Groovy

Featuring Jeff Brown

In this talk, Jeff covers a number of advanced metaprogramming concepts in Groovy, including dynamic method interception, custom meta-class implementations and Groovy's Meta Object Protocol to build flexible applications in Groovy including implementing a Domain Specific Language (DSL).

KEYNOTE - Better Productivity: Grails 2.0

Featuring Peter Ledbrook

With the imminent release of Grails 2, it's time to find out just why we think you should upgrade. Or if you're not using it, why you should give it a second look. Learn about the new usability features that are targeted at improving your productivity, such as the new interactive command...

Hacking the Spring Security Plugin

Featuring Burt Beckwith

In this talk Burt Beckwith looks at customizing behavior, from overriding configuration parameters to creating custom subclasses. We'll look at the internals of Spring Security and the plugin to become more familiar with how things work and interconnect and what the standard workflows look...

Using Weceem - an embeddable Grails CMS

Featuring Marc Palmer

Weceem is the pure Grails CMS that can run as a standalone WAR or be embedded into your own applications. I will show you the basic features of Weceem, and explain how you can extend it with new content types using GORM, and how you can embed Weceem in your application to give you instant...

Grails-data-mapping - making 'your' nosql database GORM compliant

Featuring Stefan Armbruster

Stefan shares his experience when porting the old neo4j to become a 1st class GORM citizen, followed by a mini case study on a Grails & Neo4j project at a large German telecom provider.

Tackling day to day Grails decisions

Featuring Andreas Arledal

Working on a day to day basis with a dynamic and constantly evolving framework like Grails can be challenging. Andreas will shares his experience how to: Get to use Grails in your projects Get a quick start with your new Grails project Involve people with little or no experience Choose the right...

Testing HTTP dependencies with Betamax

Featuring Robert Fletcher

Testing applications that communicate with external services via HTTP can be tricky and error prone. Betamax is a Groovy testing tool that can record and play back HTTP interactions so that tests are fast, reliable and repeatable. I'll demonstrate how to use Betamax to decouple your...

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A year in the life of a Grails startup

Featuring Tomas Lin and Donovan Frew

Secret Escapes is a private members flash sales travel site (built in Grails) that was launched in January 2010. Over the next year of the application's life, we had to quickly build functionality such as a CRM/CMS, custom theming support and AB testing. In this talk, we will talk about the...

Productive Grails Functional Testing

Featuring Luke Daley

We all know we should be writing functional (i.e. web) tests for our Grails applications, but this can sometimes seem like too much work for not enough gain. In this talk we'll look at the current Grails plugins that are out there that can start to decrease the development and maintenance...

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Continuous Delivery in the Cloud with CloudBees

Featuring Marco Vermeulen and Nicolas De Loof

A talk about the transition from Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery, taking it all to the cloud.

A cloud for developers: Cloud Foundry

Featuring Peter Ledbrook

Companies large and small are starting to offer cloud hosting for applications. Cloud Foundry stands out as being a developer-oriented cloud platform, from its open source nature to its support for multiple languages and frameworks. It's also incredibly easy to develop and deploy applications...

Maintaining Test Suites with Groovy and Twist

Featuring Andrew Kemp

This talk will focus on how you can use the Groovy support in Twist from ThoughtWorks studios to create understandable, maintainable test suites that grow with your application.

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Interview with Hans Dockter

Featuring Guillaume LaForge and Hans Dockter

Guillaume LaForge talks to Hans Dockter about Gradle, exclusively for the Groovy & Grails eXchange

Keeping Grails One Step Ahead

Featuring Marc Palmer

Grails has boosted web app development productivity immensely. But where are the next big gains to come from? This will be a short talk about some of my hopes for the future followed by an open discussion about what you think we should be doing to make Grails kick the ass of all those web...

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.

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...

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?

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.

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...

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...

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.