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To the Pub
If you're dead on your feet and want to skip straight to the pub, from 6PM we'll be opening up the bar (see programme for location details).
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Groovy, with style
Featuring Guillaume LaForge
What should "idiomatic" Groovy code look like? What are the good practices in terms of syntax style, typing preferences? What are the nice shortcuts to be aware of to be more productive? Guillaume Laforge will answer those questions along the way!
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Forces on Groovy Architecture
Featuring David Dawson
Reactive, Service Oriented, Data Centric, Task Based, Event Oriented, Message Driven, Ham Fisted, Big Ball of Mud, Microservice, Monolithic, Minilithic. What should you adopt for your latest development, can you explain why, is it just dogma?
Architecture defines how we engage with our software,...
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RESTful Grails 2
Featuring Jeff Brown
Grails 2 includes a lot of features and functionality related to building RESTful services. These include an entirely new and more flexible data binding system, runtime and compile time metaprogramming which greatly reduce the amount of code required in your RESTful services, a rich set of...
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Micro Service Architecture with Spring Boot and Groovy
Featuring Marco Vermeulen
Spring Boot is a new addition to the Spring family. It takes an opinionated view of building Spring applications, adopting Convention Over Configuration by default. Add Groovy to the mix, and you have a web stack that will give you wings!
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Grails and the real-time world
Featuring Iván López
In a hyper-connected world the concept ""Real Time"" is used more and more every day. With the traditional Grails architecture it's difficult to achieve this, so we need to use a different approach. The answer is to use message driven architectures that will allow us to...
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Groovy and Android: a winning pair
Featuring Guillaume LaForge
For 10 years, Groovy has dramatically improved the productivity of Java developers on the desktop. With unique like closures, builders, AST transformations, traits, optional static compilation and many more, Groovy turned out to be a very competitive language on the JVM. Compared to other JVM...
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Keynote: Grails 3.0 Preview
Featuring Graeme Rocher
In this talk, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will present a preview of the much anticipating version 3.0 rewrite of the Grails framework including presentation of the goals behind the changes and what will be achievable with the new version.
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GPars 2014
Featuring Russel Winder
GPars is the standard package for high-level concurrency and parallelism in Groovy: although it is a separate project and artefact, it is distributed as standard in Groovy. There are (at least) two forms of concurrency and parallelism: single computer (multi-core, multi-processor) and cluster....
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