Many thanks to Peter Ledbrook for organizing the London GGUG meeting last night. I got a chance to present on practical DSLs in Groovy and then Peter finished off the evening with a great overview of some of the cool features in 1.3 and even 1.3.1 (which had only launched earlier that same day).
Here is the deck, and the presentation was taped, so as soon as I get the URL I’ll post a link to it.
Peter Bell has been presenting internationally for years on Domain Specific Languages, Domain Specific Modeling and Software Product Lines. His focus is on getting beyond the syntax to handle the engineering concerns when developing real world DSL solutions - from evolution to IDE support, constraint checking, documentation and testing DSLs.
He is on the Program Committee for Code Generation in Cambridge England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA).
He is also the CEO/CTO of SystemsForge - a New York based company that uses DSLs and a Software Product Line built on top of Groovy and Grails to develop custom web applications quickly and cost effectively. The SystemsForge product line has been presented at ooPSLA and Code Generation and written up in IEEE Software and Methods & Tools.
