Colin Harrington

Senior Consultant, Object Partners, Inc

Colin Harrington is a Senior Consultant at Object Partners, Inc with over 3.5 years of Grails experience. Based in Minnesota, Colin has 10+ years of experience developing web-based applications.

Colin is an agile practitioner and has been a key component of many powerful fast-paced local and remote teams with varying levels of composition and ability. He is a Technical leader and a forward thinker with a knack for delivering potent and engaging web-applications.

Colin is an active member of the Groovy and Grails community and an active speaker at local user groups, events and conferences such as MinneBar, GUM, GR8Conf in the US, etc.

Blog

Gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor Authorization Policy

Posted Saturday, March 27, 2010

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Grails: The View Layer [GUM]

Posted Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Grails user-specific configurations

Posted Thursday, November 26, 2009

I asked a question on the GUM (Groovy Users of Minnesota) User list about how to achieve a user/machine specific config. I didn't havemore »

Presentations

Grails Layouts & Sitemesh

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 Grailsmore »

There an back again: a story of a simple HTTP request

There an back again: a story of a simple HTTP request's travels through the depths of an ordinary grails application running in tomcat. Grails is an amazing "convention over configuration" framework that makes the complexities of Spring, Hibernate, etc. more »

Testing Grails: Experiencies from the field

Testing is built into grails, but many Grails apps go untested. We'll cover how to test many different artefacts as well cover many principles that have helped lead to succesfully tested Grails application.s more »

SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

the spring, groovy & grails event of the year!