Speakers


Dave Klein

Author of 'Grails: A Quick-Start Guide'

Dave is a consultant helping organizations of all sizes to develop applications more quickly (and have more fun doing it) with Grails. Dave has been involved in enterprise software development for the past 15 years. He has worked as a developer, architect, project manager, mentor and trainer. Dave has presented at user groups and national conferences. He is also the founder of the Capital Java User Group in Madison, Wisconsin, the Gateway Groovy Users in St. Louis, MO, and the author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide, published by the Pragmatic Programmers. . Dave's Groovy and Grails related thoughts can be found at http://dave-klein.blogspot.com



Blog

CocoaConf, And My Anniversary

Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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Groovy / Grails User Groups

Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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JavaOne Has Been Replaced

Posted Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Presentations

Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM Part I

The goal of this hands-on tutorial is to get started and get productive with Grails. We’ll do this by jumping right in and building an application, from design to deployment.more »

Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM Part II

In Part II of this session, we will continue the build out process with the Grails application.more »

JavaScript for Grails Developers

As Java web developers, most of our work is on the server side. With Grails, that work is much easier and more fun. But what about the client-side?more »

Books

by Dave Klein

Grails: A Quick-Start Guide Buy from Amazon
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  • Grails is a full stack web development framework that enables you to build complete web applications in a fraction of the time and with less code than other frameworks.

    In Grails: A Quick-Start Guide, you'll see how to use Grails by iteratively building an unique, working application. By the time we're done, you'll have built and deployed a real, functioning website.

    Along the way, we'll learn about domain classes, controllers, and GSP views. We'll see how Grails allows us to use powerful frameworks like Spring and Hibernate without even knowing it.

    Using this hands-on, pragmatic approach, we'll explore topics such as AJAX in Grails, custom tags, and plugins. We'll dig into Grails' powerful view technology, Groovy Server Pages, and see how we can easily leverage the help given to us by scaffolding to create custom user interfaces faster than you would have thought possible.

    With Grails, you can get a lot done with little effort. With this book, you'll get a lot done as well. It's time to bring the fun back into web programming. Get started with Grails today.