Danno Ferrin

Project Lead for the Griffon project

Danno Ferrin has been programming in Java since the Netscape 2.0 beta and started his career programming in NetDynamics. After surviving three different startups he is currently working as a government contracter at Intelligent Software Solutions. His day job involves writing Swing applications in Java, but on his own time he writes Swing applications in Groovy.

In the open source Java world he is an emeritus commiter at the Apache Tomcat and Ant projects and currently is a committer for the Groovy project and a Despot (Project lead) for the Griffon project.

Blog

Griffon 0.1 Beta Released

Posted 2010-06-04 12:01:00.0

After much last minute bug fixing Griffon 0.1 Beta has been released into the wild. You can get the goods at the Griffon Downloads Pagemore »

Taking Flight: A Year of Griffon

Posted 2009-09-10 16:16:37.0

Whenever I fly I like to get the window seat. Sitting on the aisle may get you out quicker, and it may get you quicker access to the overhead bins. But I like the window, for the 15 minutes at the beginning and end of the flight when you must tumore »

Groovy Console Bling-Bling

Posted 2009-02-18 10:15:42.0

Groovy 1.6 is about to hit the inter-webs, so I thought it was an appropriate time for me to emerge from a twitter induced blogging hiatus. But what to blog aboutmore »

Presentations

The Griffon Tenets: How the Rails Tenets Translate to RIAs

The Rails tenets are great, for web based applications. But how do the values hold up when applied to Desktop and Rich Internet Applications?more »

Intro to Griffon: Grails for RIAs

What is the Griffon Framework? And how would I use it? This session will help those who may not have been following the Griffon framework understand what it is and see how it works.more »

SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

the spring, groovy & grails event of the year!