Getting Started with Grails
Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
Denver · November 18 - 20, 2011
About this Presentation
Grails is emerging as a standard JVM web framework in environments ranging from startups to the enterprise. It's a full-stack solution build on rock-solid components, fully relying on convention over configuration, and using the best application language the JVM has yet seen: Groovy. This is the place to be for web apps on the JVM.
In this introductory talk, we'll get a whirlwind introduction to Grails, visiting seven things you need to know about the framework to get started.
- Programming in Groovy
- Creating an app
- Interacting with the database
- Building your UI
- Processing web requests
- Tapping the huge plugin community
- Deploying to production
VP Developer Relations at IBM
Tim serves as the VP of Developer Relations at IBM, where he and his team work to make certain parts of the IBM portfolio more accessible to developers. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a presence on YouTube explaining complex technology topics in an accessible way. He lives with his wife in Arvada, CO. He has three grown children, three step-children, and four grandchildren, with a fifth on the way.