Central Iowa Software Symposium
August 5 - 7, 2011
Getting Started with Grails
Saturday - Aug 6 1:30 PM CDT - Woodbury
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
Tim Berglund
VP Developer Relations at Confluent
About Tim Berglund
Tim is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Vice President of Developer Relations. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a presence on YouTube explaining complex technology topics in an accessible way. He tweets as @tlberglund, blogs every few years at http://timberglund.com. He has three grown children and two grandchildren, a fact about which he is rather excited.