SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

Burt Beckwith

Core Member of the Grails Development Team

Burt Beckwith is a Java and Groovy developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past three years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's created over fifteen Grails plugins and made significant contributions to several others. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action.



Blog

Why I’ll never use Groovy on Grails

Posted Monday, February 6, 2012

Why? Because it doesn’t exist. The framework is called Grailmore »

This Week in Grails (2012-05)

Posted Monday, February 6, 2012

Rob Fletcher has been doing some great work on scaffolding. Check out this slick demo app on Cloud Foundry. It uses his Fields plugin (the successor to the bean-fields) and Twitter Bootstramore »

This Week in Grails (2012-04)

Posted Monday, January 30, 2012

Peter Ledbrook started a HOWTO series this week for Grails; the first one is on upgrading to Grails 2.0 and there’s also a HOWTO on writing HOWTOs. We could use your help finding invalid JIRA issues (more »

Grails plugin for Ratpack

Posted Sunday, January 29, 2012

I saw James Williams’ post on Running Ratpack inside Grails earlier this week and thought that it should be implemented as a Grails plugin, so I started playing with it. There isn’t much in the way of documentation yet, but what’s thermore »
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Presentations

Deploying Grails Applications to Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is a revolutionary open-source PaaS service from VMware and Grails applications have first-class support on the platform.more »

Polyglot Persistence: NoSQL and Grails

Historically Hibernate was the only persistence engine supported in Grails but that's changed a lot with new support for NoSQL datastores. more »

Grails Spring Security Plugins

In this talk we'll look at the Spring Security Core plugin and its dependent plugins. The core plugin provides all of the standard functionality you expect from a security plugin (URL security, users, roles, form-based authentication, etc.) and extension more »

Advanced GORM - Performance, Customization and Monitoring

You've used GORM in Grails apps, you've written custom criteria and HQL queries, and now you're ready to take database access in Grails to the next level.more »