Vancouver’s 3rd Groovy/Grails Meetup – Wed. Nov/12th @ 7pm – Waves Coffee (Hastings/Richards)

October 24, 2008 at 6:11 pm | In events, grails, groovy, vancouver | Comments Off

Adrian Powell announces on the Vancouver Groovy/Grails forum/mailing list:

Hey GroovyVan users,

Join us for Vancouver’s 3rd Groovy/Grails meetup and connect with developers in and around Vancouver and discuss, share and extend your knowledge of Groovy and Grails.

When: Wednesday the 12th of November at 7:00 pm
Where: Waves Coffee, 492 West Hastings St (Hastings & Richards, one block from the Harbour Centre)

Please sign up by responding to the announcement on the Vancouver Groovy/Grails forum/mailing list.

Thanks and see you soon.

-Adrian

Questions or comments? Send them along to the Vancouver Groovy/Grails mailing list/forum. Thanks!

Vancouver’s 1st Groovy/Grails Meetup – Tue. Feb/26th @ 6pm – WorkSpace (400 – 21 Water St)

February 18, 2008 at 7:35 pm | In eclipse, events, grails, groovy, meetup, vancouver | Comments Off

Join us for Vancouver’s 1st Groovy/Grails meetup and connect with developers in and around Vancouver and discuss, share and extend your knowledge on all things Groovy/Grails.

When: Tuesday, February 26th @ 6pm
Where: WorkSpace (400 – 21 Water St.) in Downtown Vancouver (Gastown)

We will have at least two short talks. Vancouverite Ed Povazan (Groovy Eclipse Lead) will talk about Grails. Ed writes: My plan is go from a big picture to the details by deconstructing a little web app, and then reconstructing parts of it to demonstrate what it is like to create with Grails.

Please, sign-up (RSVP) on our Yahoo! Upcoming event.

For further forthcoming details, please check back later this week. Questions or Comments? Send them along to the Vancouver Groovy/Grails Mailing List/Forum. Thanks!

Big thanks to our venue sponsor WorkSpace. What Is WorkSpace?

WorkSpace is a shared work environment in downtown Vancouver. Our Gastown loft has meeting rooms, a lounge & a café surrounding a beautiful open concept work environment. We provide memberships (not leases) to independent professionals and small firms looking for a better place to work. Read more…

The Search is Over – Groovy & Grails Talk @ Vancouver Island Technology Park (Jan/23)

January 20, 2008 at 10:27 pm | In events, grails, groovy, vancouverisland, victoria | Comments Off

Join us for the Vancouver Island Java Meetup at the Vancouver Island Technology Park in Victoria on Wednesday, January 23rd. I’ve signed up for a talk on Groovy & Grails.

What’s Groovy? Groovy is a free, open-source dynamic language for the Java runtime that compiles straight to Java bytecode and lets you mix and match Java and Groovy code and works out-of-the-box with all existing Java libraries. Groovy offers higher-level functions and iterators (=closures/code blocks), built-in syntax for lists, maps, markup, regular expressions, ranges, and much much more.

What’s Grails? The talk will conclude with a look at Groovy’s web framework called Grails that offers an up to 10x productivity boost over classic Java web stacks using plain old vanilla Java code thanks to convention over configuration, the Don’t-Repeat-Yourself (DRY)-principle, meta programming and much more.

Thanks to Manfred Moser for organizing and hosting the Victoria event. Upcoming talk slides will include:

  • Why Groovy? What’s wrong with Python (Jython), Ruby (JRuby) or Smalltalk (Bistro)?
  • One Language Can’t Do It All: Beyond Hairballs and Spaghetti Code
  • Scripting vs. Systems (Hard-Core) Programming / Groovy vs. Java
  • First Impression – Servus Groovy Example
  • Second Impression – Higher-Level Functions, Loops and Data Types
  • Third Impression – Groovy Beans vs Java Beans
  • Groovy Goodies Missing in Java
  • Groovy Lists: Built-In Syntax for Lists
  • Groovy Maps: Built-In Syntax for Maps
  • Groovy Loops: Higher-Level Loops Using Closures
  • What’s a Closure (Code Block)?
  • Closures in Action: Groovy Collections vs. Plain Old Java Collections
  • Groovy Adds New Methods to Core Java Classes
  • Groovy Template Strings: Expressions in Strings
  • Groovy Strings: Here-Doc Strings and More
  • Built-in Syntax for Regular Expressions (Regex)
  • Groovy Markup (XML) Syntax
  • Groovy SQL
  • Groovy Java Interop: Static Typing Optional
  • And much more

See you all there.

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