By Colin Harrington

Grails brings a powerful set of tools to the view layer: GSP, Views, Templates, Tag Libraries, and Layouts. Grails' Layouts seem to be the most misunderstood and underutilized component of the view layer. In this talk, we'll do a deep dive on how Grails uses Sitemesh, explore integration/customization points as well as live-coding examples of how to use some of the lesser known tags to achieve a very flexible and intuitive approach to developing DRY applications with Grails.

If you are a Grails Developer or just simply fed up with your current templating tools (I'm looking at you tiles) come learn about How Grails uses Sitemesh and apply some of the same principles to your Spring MVC applications.

By Colin Harrington

In this session we will spend some time getting to know some of the basics of Git and exploring successful tools and workflows. We will also learn how we can utilize git and git-svn to work with grails and many of ~500 plugins listed on grails.org. Finally we'll explore how to submit pull requests, format patches and contribute code back to original authors and the entire community.

Git is known as 'the fast version control system' and has gained much popularity in the last couple years for good reason. Grails itself has moved to Git and is now hosted on github - http://github.com/grails.

In this session we will spend some time getting to know some of the basics of Git and exploring successful tools and workflows. We will also learn how we can utilize git and git-svn to work with grails and many of ~500 plugins listed on grails.org. Finally we'll explore how to submit pull requests, format patches and contribute code back to original authors and the entire community.