Kenneth Kousen
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
Presentations
Grails from start to finish
Build a complete Grails application in this full-day workshop. Start from scratch designing the domain, add controllers and services, improve the user interface with Ajax calls, write unit and integration tests, and use plugins add functionality.
Testing Grails
Grails comes with extensive testing support, ranging from unit to integration to functional tests. This session will demonstrate the range of options available both natively and through testing plugins.
RIAs using the ZK plugin for Grails
ZK is a set of custom tags and controllers that allow users to design Rich Internet Applications without writing the Ajax or JavaScript code directly. The ZKGrails plugin makes it easy to add ZK user interfaces to a Grails project. ZK is particularly good at designing data entry screens familiar to users of other technologies.