The Power of Grails Plugins
Learn how easy it is to use, adapt, fork and write plugins for Grails. Whether you just want to take advantage of pre-built functionality, modularize your code or contribute back to the community, by the end of this session you'll have learnt how to use a plugin, wrap it, customize it and contribute back to it. You will also learn how to write your own plugin and see how easy it is to refactor your application into plugins allowing for easier code reuse, more maintainable code and even faster running test suites.
From simple usage through forking/patching to creating and publishing, this will be an indepth look at the power of plugins. We'll start by reviewing an existing plugin to see what happens under the hood. Then we'll look at strategies for either wrapping, overloading or patching community plugins to solve your problems. We'll then look at how to incrementally develop a plugin for your own use, and finally we'll look at why you might want to contribute plugins back to the community and how to get started with them.
About Peter Bell
Peter is an evangelist and hacker for hackNY - a not-for-profit that aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.
Peter is a regular presenter at national and international conferences on ruby, nodejs, NoSQL (especially MongoDB and neo4j), cloud computing, software craftsmanship, java, groovy, javascript, and requirements and estimating. He is on the program committee for Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA) and reviews and shepherds proposals for the BCS SPA conference.
He has presented at a range of conferences including DLD conference, ooPSLA, RubyNation, SpringOne2GX, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, DevNexus, cf.Objective(), CF United, Scotch on the Rocks, WebDU, WebManiacs, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff Enterprise Java tour.
He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, Mashed Code, NFJS the Magazine and GroovyMag. He's currently writing a book on managing software development for Pearson.
He is an organizer of the CTO School http://www.ctoschool.org - an organization in NYC devoted to creating the next generation of technical leaders. He also organizes the node.js meetup in New York and co-organizes the Domain Driven Design and Grails meetups.
He is a regular instructor at General Assembly in New York. His presentations cover managing software development, NoSQL, mobile development, Javascript development, Twitter Bootstrap and Javascript frameworks.
He tweets regularly as @peterbell.
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