Presentations

Does my DIV look big in this? Refactoring Your Grails View Tier

There's a lot happening in the view tier these days: layout frameworks, UI frameworks, animation, and lots more. Add Javascript and Ajax to the mix, and your view tier can quickly become an unmaintainable mess. To the rescue comes the new Grails resources infrastructure, less.css, backbone.js, twitter bootstrap, and plenty more! So come along!

This talk presents a practical refactoring of a tangled Grails UI, while exploring strategies for simplifying your view layer giving maximum flexibility and performance. Included in the talk is a discussion of the new Grails resources infrastructure, Less.css framework, Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone.js, Form & Navigation strategies and much more!

Grails Hacker Triage: 10 Shameless Hacks and Refactors

Grails productivity can be a drug - and the productivity rush can lead to a whole lot of untested, unmaintainable code. If you're written one of these bad boys, or have just take over someone else's messy Grails app, you might not know where to get started in moving your codebase to something that you are actually happy to work with. We'll cover 10 painful but classic hacks/shortcuts in Controllers, Services, Views, Taglibs & Bootstraps and how to fix them!

This hands-on talk introduces you to all the built-in Grails Unit testing infrastructure using Spock - a great new framework for simple expressible tests while we refactor 10 common Grails hacks that need work. We will be covering off 10 classic Grails hacks that affect all the core artifacts in Grails applications. If you've been putting off testing your Grails app, or found it too onerous to make happen, this is the talk for you! It's a fully interactive session, so bring your experiences and your war stories.