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Location & Dates
- February 21 - 23, 2008
- Sheraton Reston Hotel
- 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
- Reston, VA 20191
Speakers
Graeme Rocher
Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Before founding G2One Inc, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in Open Source technology and agile software development, where Grae..Read More About Graeme »
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Thursday: Lunch/Dinner
Friday: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner
Saturday: Breakfast/Lunch - IntelliJ - 1 year license
(a $400 value) - 2G T-shirt
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- 1GB USB Drive - all presentation
content/code examples - Wireless Access
- Session Handouts
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Thanks to all who participated at the first Groovy / Grails Experience! It was great to see so many people from the Groovy, Grails, and Java communities. The feedback has been very positive, so we have already decided to do it again. We will be hosting a 2008 Groovy/Grails Experience: West Edition February 21 - 23, 2008 in San Jose. Help us spread the word and join us once again for another great show! Remember, use Groovy and Grails early and often!
Also, the 1st public Grails Training will take place April 9-11th in Denver, Colorado. Check out the 2008 Training Schedule as we have training led by Scott Davis available in cities across the country.
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Groovy and Grails == The Next Generation of Java
Why should your organization use Groovy and Grails? "Groovy is like a super version of Java. It can leverage Java's enterprise capabilities but also has cool productivity features like closures, builders and dynamic typing. If you are a developer, tester or script guru, you have to love Groovy." - http://groovy.codehaus.org
Grails is an MVC framework built on the power of proven Java technologies. Under the hood, Grails uses Hibernate and Spring; two technologies which have become defacto standards in the Java space. Grails aims to make development as simple as possible and hence should appeal to a wide range of developers not just those from the Java community.
No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to bring you this event featuring industry experts, authors, and project leaders. This is your chance to come and learn from the experts shaping the Groovy language and Grails web application framework.
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Scott Davis on Groovy programming for Java guys
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AboutGroovy Interviews Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, co-author of Practices of an Agile Developer, joins Scott Davis for an animated chat about Domain Specific Languages in Groovy. Listen Now »
Featured Sessions
Swing mashups with Groovy and Grails
Andres Almiray
The web is not the only place for mashups, Swing can do it too! Thanks to useful Groovy tools like GuiBuilder, XmlSlurper, DSLs and other techniques you can create a richer experience for your users with less code. In this session, you will learn to harness the power of those tools and techniques to prototype and run smashups in minutes. Grails will serve as the content provider showcasing how Groovy can help in both sides of the mashup equation. Basic knowledge of the Groovy language and Grails is desired for attendees.
Easy BDD with Groovy
Andrew Glover
Behavior-driven development, or BDD, has attracted a lot of attention via RSpec in the Ruby community, but BDD's roots stem from JBehave, a Java based framework modeled off of the xUnit paradigm. But JBehave isn't the only framework available for Java developers-- with the advent of Groovy, new options are available for embracing BDD in the spirit of RSpec's innovative behavior based DSL.
Resource-Oriented Groovy
Brian Sletten
Resource-Oriented Groovy
Ok, we've got our agile methodologies, our test-driven development, our dynamic scripting languages and, what? A static data model? Relational systems that need to have the relationships spelled out for them? What is wrong with this picture? Our information systems are increasingly dynamic, we shouldn't let our data slow us down.
Seven Groovy usage patterns for Java developers
Dierk Koenig
Any Java project can benefit from Groovy. This presentation presents seven patterns for how to include Groovy in your Java project from simple build automation tasks down to the core of your business logic. Each patterns comes with a description, examples and code. Some are shown as demos.
Groovy with Pleasure
Eugene Vigdorchik
During this session Eugene will show how he made many of the features familiar to Java IDE users available for Groovy. He will go through the entire Grails applications development, starting from project setup, going through code editing demonstrating lots of IDEA-like features such as code competition, navigation and refactorings. Eugene also briefly covered some of Grails specific features and wrapped up with application deployment and debugging.
The Whole 9 Yards: Things you can do in 10 Minutes that will Make Users Love You
Glen Smith
Glen discuss simple and useful things you can implement in your Grails app in under 10 minutes. His presentation covered how to generate PDFs, browser thumbnails, add and consume RSS feeds, send rich email, JS Effects, integrate Wiki markup, do simple performance tweaks, and a bunch of other tips he's learnt from the trenches with his production Grails apps.
The Grails Plug-in System: Plug into productivity
Graeme Rocher
Grails is more than just a web framework, it is a complete platform and API for runtime configuration.
Empowering Spring with Groovy DSLs
Graeme Rocher
Domain specific languages (DSL) are becoming increasingly prominent with the rise of dynamic languages like Groovy and Ruby. In this talk Graeme Rocher, Grails Project Lead, introduces two interesting use cases from the Grails framework: A Spring Configuration DSL and a Spring Web Flow DSL using Groovy.
GORM - Object Relational Mapping with Hibernate De-mystified
Graeme Rocher
Hibernate is an immensely powerful ORM layer with an array of features and mapping options which comes at the cost of complexity. The web application framework Grails ships with an ORM layer that builds of top of Hibernate, but eliminates much of the complexity through clever use of convention and the dynamic features of the Groovy language.
Advanced Domain Models in Grails: Enterprise Integration Made Easy
Jason Rudolph
Have you seen someone develop a Rails or Grails application in a matter of minutes, only to later discover that their domain model and database schema followed conventions that are different from your existing systems? Or perhaps you're interested in using Grails, but you don't want to duplicate your existing Java domain classes in Groovy. In this session, we'll see how Grails makes it easy to hook into your pre-defined schemas or existing entity classes, while still getting all the rapid application development (RAD) goodness that Grails has to offer.
Refactotum: Groovy/Grails Part I
Jason Rudolph
Contributing to open source is great for your career. In a few short hours, you can learn, teach, promote your skills, and improve the quality of the community. In this unique workshop, we will show you how, by doing it.
Powerful Metaprogramming Techniques With Groovy
Jeff Brown
Metaprogramming is a key component in building truly dynamic and flexible applications with Groovy. Groovy's metaprogramming capabilities bring great new possibilities to the table that would be very difficult or just plain impossible to write with Java alone. This session will demystify a lot of the magic that seems to be going on inside of a Groovy application.
Groovy And Your Build
Jeff Brown
There are numerous roles that Groovy may play in your build process to greatly simplify the management of the build while bringing more capabilities. This session will detail a lot of the things that Groovy can do to improve your build and lessen the amount of effort you spend on your build.
Limber Groovy: Making Your Everyday Code More Flexible with Groovy
John Carnell
Groovy is an extremely powerful and dynamic scripting language that can allow development teams to build extreme flexibility into their applications. However, leveraging this flexibility in Groovy requires developers to break many of the paradigms they have built over the years surrounding such things as object-oriented design and programming with static languages.
Design Patterns in Groovy
Neal Ford
The Gang of Four book should have been entitled "Palliatives for Statically Typed Languages", because the recipes it provides are cumbersome solutions to the problems it poses. Using powerful languages makes the solutions in the GoF book look hopelessly complicated.
Comparing JRuby and Groovy
Neal Ford
Rather than stand around and sling mud between the Groovy and JRuby tribes, this session delves deep into the similarities and differences between the two, allowing attendees to make informed decisions about their next Java dialect.
Groovy and Java: The Integration Story
Scott Davis
I'm attracted to Groovy because of its spirit of inclusiveness. Because it extends my platform of choice, not replaces it -- include a single JAR in your classpath and you are Groovy-enabled. Because it offers full bidirectional integration with Java. Because it offers a nearly flat learning curve for experienced Java developers. Come see how you can use Groovy to augment your existing Java codebase.
Groovy, The Red Pill: Metaprogramming, the Groovy Way to Blow a Buttoned-Down Java Developer's Mind
Scott Davis
This talk focuses on the ways that Groovy can turn a traditional Java developer's world-view upside down. We'll start by talking about how you can thumb your nose at The Man by leaving out many of the main syntactic hallmarks of Java: semicolons, parentheses, return statements, type declarations (aka Duck-typing), and the ever-present try/catch block. Then we'll look at features like operator overloading and method pointers that Groovy welcomes back into the language with open arms.
Grails for Struts Developers: A Groovy Alternative
Scott Davis
Struts is the defacto web framework for Java web developers. It has been with us since 2001. Struts enjoys unprecedented success -- most surveys place its market share between 60% and 70%. It introduced a whole generation of web developers to the phrase 'MVC' (Model / View / Controller).
Grails 1.0 was released in 2008. It marries the modern features of Rails with the need for legacy support for Struts. Grails is inspired by Rails, but it is not a simple port of the project to Java. It takes the ideas of Rails, but expresses them in familiar Java libraries like Spring and Hibernate. It also leverages a new dynamic language for the JVM called Groovy.
Groovy, Grails and Google Maps: Mashups 101
Scott Davis
Groovy is a new dynamic language that dramatically speeds up Java development. Grails is a complete web framework in a box, including a web server and a database. Google Maps allows you to add maps to your webpage in a few lines of code. Put all three together and you are built for speed.
5 Groovy/Grails web applications you can write in 2 days
Steven Devijver
The cool thing about Groovy and Grails is that if you have an idea
for a web application you can get started really quickly and get
results equally fast. In this session I will demonstrate how I
developed 5 Groovy and Grails applications from idea to finish in 2
days each. They are: an application to compare the results of multiple
unit test runs, an application to capture and let evolve application
requirements, a simple social web site with a blog and a mini
linked-in, a social application to let a neighborhood track and avoid
unsolicitated junk snail mail, and a
The economics of Grails
Steven Devijver
Turing's hypothesis says that if an algorithm returns a result
(doesn't loop forever) it can be executed by a theoretical computer
(one with infinite memory capacity). It's probably the most
significant mathematical definition for software development because
it basically says only humans can determine whether a particular piece
of software is adequate enough to solve a given problem.
DSL in Groovy
Venkat Subramaniam
DSL or Domain Specific Languages focus on a domain or problem at hand. They're expressive, but their
restricted scope keeps them simple and small from the user point of view. However, designing them is not easy.
In this presentation we will explore the features of Groovy and show how they can be used to create DSLs.
Testing with Groovy
Venkat Subramaniam
Groovy's dynamic and Meta Programming capabilities makes it a great tool for unit testing. In this talk we will
take a look at how we can use Groovy for unit testing and creating mocks both for testing Groovy code and Java code.
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