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Groovy on Grails
One Day Seminar
SpringSource's Jeff Brown, and Chariot Solutions' Gordon Dickens and Ken Rimple took the attendees through an overview of the Grails platform, including:
For those of you who missed it, here are the relevant presentations and slides where available.
Here are the presentations and a recap of session contents.
- View Slides A brief introduction to the Groovy language and the Grails Platform
- View Slides Using the GORM domain-centered object relational mapping API
- View Slides Controllers, GSPs, and layouts
- View Slides A review of some key and powerful plugins
- (no slides) Polyglot Web Programming with Grails
- View Slides Flex and RIA application development options
- View Slides Developing and hosting Grails applications in the cloud using Google App Engine
- An evening open lab/hackathon with Jeff Brown
Presenters
Jeff Brown works with Engineering and Professional Services with SpringSource, is a member of the core Groovy and Grails development teams and is a co-author of The Definitive Guide To Grails Second Edition. For over 10 years Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems.
Jeff has done development and mentoring work for industries including Aerospace, Financial and Medical. Areas of expertise include Java, agile web development with Groovy and Grails, distributed computing, object database systems, object oriented analysis and design and agile development. Through his entire career Jeff has always been a hands-on technologist actively involved in software development, training, and mentoring.
Ken Rimple heads Chariot's training and mentoring programs, and has developed and/or delivered courseware and seminars in a variety of technologies such as Maven, OSGi, Groovy, Grails and Spring. Ken is spearheading Chariot's SpringSource University partnership, and is teaching the Core Spring Course in September and December. Throughout his career, Ken has always made it a priority to teach others what he has learned.
Ken has served as the technical co-chair of both the Fall Forecast 2008 Cloud Computing Conference and the 2009 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. He hosts a popular podcast, the Chariot TechCast, and has led or participated in projects written in Java since Java 1.0.2. Ken taught the first Philadelphia-area Sun Introduction to Java course in the late 1990s.
Gordon Dickens has worked in the IT consulting realm for over 15 years. Gordon's recent background includes experience designing and developing a Groovy on Grails application for a chemical company in addition to Java, Spring and Hibernate development. Gordon has over 20 years as an experienced technical instructor in various technology paradigms.
Gordon has applied various technologies including the design, development and testing of applications, object and database modeling within many sectors including Financial, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and more. Gordon enjoys learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others. Gordon is actively participating in several technical book reviews.
