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 & 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 »

Grails & Async

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Colin Harrington By Colin Harrington

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



This talk will cover the Servlet 3.0 Async support in Grails, message queues, and application events to a provide seamless application experience. We will also look into server push technologies, ajax long-polling, and websockets taking a look at the tools already available in the Grails community.


Resources Plugin Deep Dive

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Colin Harrington By Colin Harrington

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. These technologies are essential for providing a performant web experience and is also under appreciated in the community.



We will be taking a deep dive into the Resources plugin, taking a look at several other configurable resource plugins and exploring how to build your own resource aware applications and plugins.