Extreme Scaffolding & User Interface Techniques in Grails
This talk will examine various techniques and solutions for extending the Grails UI in interesting ways. The underlying platform for Grails offers a powerful combination of great ideas, such as scaffolding, sitemesh templates, taglibs, templates, and other that get us nice and close to DRY goal. We will examine several plugins and techniques that take these ideas even further, resulting in yet another boost to productivity.
We will start with diving a bit deeper into the scaffolding generation process, and then focus on several plugins that help ease UI development, including some scaffolding plugins and ZKGrails.
About Jean Barmash
Jean Barmash is the co-founder and lead developer of EnergyScoreCards, a startup company that helps benchmark energy efficiency of multi-family buildings. He is responsible for architecture and implementation of the SaaS software using the Grails framework.
To this role Jean brings over 10 years of experience in different areas of software industry. Most recently, he was Director of Technical Services at Alfresco Software, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company, where his responsibilities included architecture and hands-on development of content centric solutions, training, and working with open source community. He also worked as Sr. Consultant and Trainer at several Wall Street Firms. Well-versed in both .NET and Java Platforms, Jean is interested in applying latest development techniques to interesting problems.
Jean is a frequent speaker on technology and architecture topics at various user groups and industry conferences. He is also the founder of the New York Groovy / Grails Meetup.
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