Luke Daley is a Principal Engineer with Gradleware. When he's not working on Gradle, you'll find Luke hacking on other projects in the Groovy ecosystem like Grails, Spock and Geb.
Talks I've Given
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London Groovy & Grails User Group Meetup
Featuring Luke Daley
One of the big names in the Groovy community, Luke Daley, will soon be leaving these shores and returning to his native Australia. Before he goes, he will give a farewell gig at the London GGUG
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Build Grails applications with Gradle
Featuring Luke Daley
2012 saw the addition of very useful support for the Maven inclined Grails users of the world. For those more inclined in all things G*, this session will look at how we can use the Gradle build tool to build and wrangle Grails applications.
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Ratpack: A toolkit for JVM web applications
Featuring Luke Daley
As JVM developers we've been lucky to have the holy Grails available for our web application needs. While Grails is the right tool for so many jobs, sometimes you need to scratch an itch with something a little lighter and more trimmed down. Enter Ratpack!
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Implementing a Standardized Build Platform Across the Enterprise with Gradle
Featuring Luke Daley
In this session we’ll walk through examples of leveraging Gradle’s extensibility and plugin mechanisms to develop standards, enforce compliance and deliver tailored out of the box functionality. We will also look at how to provision such customisations throughout your enterprise in a controllable...
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Plugin Best Practices
Featuring Luke Daley
In this session we'll explore some fundamental concepts that can be used as guidelines when developing plugins and new Gradle functionality, and the role of plugins and how they can be used
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The Gradle Workshop
Featuring Luke Daley
Join Gradleware’s Principal Engineer, Luke Daley, for a workshop on using Gradle – the basis for the new build tooling of the Android SDK. The workshop covers foundational and advanced features of Gradle that will enable you to get the most out of your Android builds.
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Ratpack - A Groovy micro web framework
Featuring Luke Daley
Ratpack has had an interesting life so far, and has recently changed hands to be developed by Luke Daley and the project run by Tim Berglund. Come and see what could be a valuable addition to the Groovy developer's toolkit for simple HTTP solutions.
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Gradle - Build Automation Evolved
Featuring Luke Daley
Luke Daley discusses how Gradle can automate the building, testing, publishing, deployment and more of software packages or other types of projects such as generated static websites, generated documentation or indeed anything else.
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Managing JavaScript with Gradle
Featuring Luke Daley
Luke Daley looks at some of the options for managing your client side code assets such as JavaScript in your Gradle builds with some of the Gradle plugins that have sprung up in this area. We'll look at minification, unification, dependency management and other issues that need to be tackled...
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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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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...
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Gradle Intro with Luke Daley
Featuring Luke Daley
Luke Daley gives a half-day Introduction to Gradle workshop, designed for software developers already well versed in Java but who are new to Gradle.
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Interview with Luke Daley
Featuring Guillaume LaForge and Luke Daley
Guillaume LaForge talks to Luke Daley about Spock and Gradle
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The evolution of an Open Source project's build automation
Featuring Luke Daley
Luke Daley is the founder of Geb — the Groovy based web automation framework. In this talk, Luke will relive the project's history, focusing on how different tools were used to meet different automation needs and some more general musings on running an indie Open Source project.
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Q&A
Featuring Luke Daley
Luke Daley takes a break from his work on Gradle to give an exclusive Q&A for the Groovy & Grails User Group.
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