John Carnell

The Art of Producing Software: Applying Lean Concepts to Transform Your Software Development Organization

Waste is an insidious beast that drains the productivity of development teams and the organizations they work in. Many organizations are now realizing that by turning their gaze inward they can streamline their overall development processes, deliver higher quality products faster and save significant amounts of money.

Racing with Rhinos: Using Springs and Grails to Achieve Competitive Velocity

One of the holy grails of an enterprise architecture team is to provide a light-weight development framework that can be used to quickly build first-to-market applications while still providing a migration path for these applications to a more robust corporate enterprise stack. (e.g. J2EE).

This talk will look at how you can leverage Grails, Groovy and Spring to build applications that can start small and grow to integrate with your enterprise systems.

Limber Groovy: Making Your Everyday Code More Flexible with Groovy

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.