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.
Talks I've Given
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GroovyFX - A World of Wonder
Featuring Dierk Koenig
GroovyFX is Groovy's way of putting the power of JavaFX into the hands or mere mortals.
This session is about showing both, the rich capabilities of UI design and the ease of development with GroovyFX.
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Desktop in the cloud, cloud on your desktop
Featuring Dierk Koenig
In this talk, Dierk Koenig will show how to achieve the benefits of cloud without compromising user experience goals with the open-source ULC Grails plugin, the Groovy UlcBuilder, and the 100% Java Canoo RIA Suite.
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Concurrent programming for you and me
Featuring Dierk Koenig
In this talk Dierk Koenig will explore how with the help of GPars, Groovy's library for concurrent programming, concepts like fork/join, map/reduce, actors, and dataflow can make our concurrent tasks simpler and less error-prone. If you work on the JVM and would like to prepare yourself for...
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Rich Grails UIs with Canoo RIA Suite
Featuring Dierk Koenig
Learn how to easily write a Grails web application that appears to your users as if it was a desktop application. To this end, we will use the Grails ULC plugin and the UlcBuilder.
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Groovy for the pro's
Featuring Dierk Koenig
Pro's stands for both professionals and programmers. In a very relaxed setting we will go through various issues that a professional programmer may care about when using Groovy. Bring your questions!
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Scala, Groovy, JRuby, Clojure - Which JVM language is for you?
Featuring Guillaume LaForge and Dierk Koenig
In this discussion, panel members Dierk König, Guillaume Laforge (Groovy), Charles Nutter (JRuby), Stefan Tilkov (Clojure) and Ted Neward (Scala) discuss with the audience the pros and cons of the popular JVM-based lanauges Scala, Groovy, JRuby and Clojure in order to attempt to reach a verdict...
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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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Unit Testing and Mock Objects with Groovy
Featuring Dierk Koenig
Unit testing is a first-class developer duty with even higher priority in dynamic languages like Groovy. During this talk at the Grails eXchange 2007, Dierk explained the built-in features that Groovy provides for unit testing ranging from basic tests as known from JUnit, through Groovy specific...
testing unit-testing groovy junit