2011/06/16 Meet high potentials at Canoo!
We are happy to win two well-known experts for exclusive talks – Peter Ledbrook and Stephen Chin! Both of them are on the occasion of the Jazoon 2011 in Switzerland and they will visit us in Basel to talk about their special subjects.
We will be glad to see you at one of these Public Reading Groups
Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 4 p.m.
Peter Ledbrook, VMWare, United Kingdom
„Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes”.
Friday, June 24, 2011, 4 p.m.
Stephen Chin, GXS, USA
„JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages – Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage”.
The talks will be held in our office at Kirschgartenstrasse 5 in Basel. Afterwards at the reception there will be time to compare notes and to talk to the speakers.
Attendance is free. Please register via e-mail until June 21 or June 23 to susanne.batz@canoo.com. We are looking forward to seeing you!
Abstracts
Peter Ledbrook, VMWare, United Kingdom
A long-time Grails user, Peter is currently a committer to the project and officially Grails Advocate at SpringSource, a division of VMware. He is also co-author of Grails in Action with Glen Smith.
“Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes”
In this session Peter Ledbrook, core member of the Grails development team and a senior engineer at SpringSource, will demonstrate how the basics of Twitter can be built using Grails and JMS in only 40 minutes. A fast paced and code-driven presentation, Jeff will build a Twitter-like application from scratch using Grails and its rapid application development capability. By bringing together Spring, JMS and Java persistence techniques, Jeff will also provide advanced tips and techniques for constructing Grails applications that can be deployed on to the Java EE platform.
Attendees will learn:
• How to construct a basic Grails project with Spring-based domain objects
• How to incorporate messaging and persistence into your Grails application
• How to adapt basic configuration to suit the needs of you application
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Stephen Chin, GXS, USA
Open-Source Developer and Agile Executive, Stephen Chin is founder of numerous projects including WidgetFX and JFXtras. He has been working with Java desktop and enterprise technologies for over a decade, and has a passion for improving development technologies and process. Stephen’s interest in Java technologies has lead him to start a Java and JavaFX focused blog (http://steveonjava.wordpress.com/) and coauthor the Pro JavaFX Platform book together with Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, and Dean Iverson. Stephen is a regular speaker at Java User Groups and Conferences, a 2009 JavaOne Rock Star, and a Java Champion.
“JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages – Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage”
JavaFX 2.0 is the next version of a revolutionary rich client platform for developing immersive desktop applications. One of the new features in JavaFX 2.0 is a set of pure Java APIs that can be used from any JVM language, opening up tremendous possibilities. This talk will demonstrate the future potential of using JavaFX 2.0 together with alternative languages including Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage.
