SPRINGONE 2GX 2012: THE SPRING, GROOVY, GRAILS, & CLOUD EVENT OF THE YEAR!


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

Grails: The View Layer [GUM]

Posted 2010-02-04 00:25:00.0

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Grails user-specific configurations

Posted 2009-11-26 10:15:00.0

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 »

Grails BOF recording at SpringOne2GX

Posted 2009-10-25 00:27:00.0

SpringOne2gx was a blast this year.  It was great to get to know many members from the community! I was able to record the Grails BOF (Birds Of a Feather) session at SpringOmore »

Hulu Desktop for Linux! 32 & 64bit versions for Ubuntu & Fedora

Posted 2009-10-08 23:44:00.0

Hulu Desktop (currently Beta) is now available on Linux!  A friend tipped me off to an article on TechCruncmore »
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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 »

Grails & Async

We will cover techniques for providing resources not contstrained to typical request/response boundaries. more »

Resources Plugin Deep Dive

Since Grails 2.0 the Resources Plugin has been included by default on new apps. The Resources Plugin provides a powerful streamlined asset pipeline that you can configure and extend.more »