Grails for Switchers

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Proposal
Long Form
osb2010-0310

Excerpt

Come on. You know you want to.

Description

If you’ve been interested in trying Grails but haven’t had the chance yet, this hands-on session is for you.

In this session you’ll learn how to build a Grails application from the ground up, and we’ll also explore the world of custom tags and the vast ecosystem of plugins that are available for Grails.

Even if you currently use another language or framework, there are a huge number of very compelling reasons to give Groovy and Grails a shot. Come see what all the buzz is about!

Tags

Groovy, grails

Speaking experience

Speaker

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    Matt Woodward

    US Senate

    Biography

    Matt Woodward is Principal IT Specialist with the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, United States Senate. He develops web applications in Grails, Java, CFML, and anything else that happens to strike his fancy. Matt is a member of the Free Software Foundation, the League for Programming Freedom, the Association for Computing Machinery, and is on the steering committee of Open BlueDragon, a Java-based GPL CFML engine. Matt lives with his girlfriend and a menagerie of four-footed friends in Bothell, Washington.