Scott Davis
Research Triangle Software Symposium
Raleigh · June 9 - 11, 2006
Author of "Groovy Recipes"
Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.
Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.
Presentations
Holistic Testing
Mark Twain once said, “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Do you feel the same way about Unit Testing? Are you actively testing your code, or are you just thinking about testing your code… some day… once you get some more free time…
Guerrilla Web Techniques
Frameworks? We don't need no stinkin' web frameworks. OK, so maybe that's overstating the case. Web frameworks do plenty of good things, but sometimes they can also be golden handcuffs. Too many web developers fall into the trap of thinking, “If it can't be done by my web framework, then it simply can't be done.”