Presentations

Slimmed Down Software: A Lean, Groovy Approach

The Groovy Programming Language advertises itself as an "agile and dynamic Language for the JVM", but what does this mean exactly? This session explains Lean Software Development, and shows how your choice of programming language can help your entire process remain nimble and adaptive.

Come learn about the principles of Lean, and see how Groovy and the associated ecosystem help eliminate waste, defer commitment, and build quality into your product. Leave with new ideas about collaboration that both developers and business users will embrace.

Audience: Team leads looking for low risk but effective ways to increase velocity.

Code Generation on the JVM: Writing Code that Writes Code

"The Pragmatic Programmer" admonished us all to "write code that writes code": use code generators to increase productivity and avoid duplication. Today's language communities have clearly caught on, as more and more frameworks generate code at compile time: AST Transforms, Project Lombok, Spring Roo, and more.

This session reviews these approaches including examples of how and why we'd want to do this. Come see the newest Groovy language tools, look in-depth at production deployed AST Transforms, and view libraries based on these techniques.

Audience: developers searching for cutting edge solutions to increasing team velocity.