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.
Talks I've Given
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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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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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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...
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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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