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 Grails uses Sitemesh, explore integration/customization points as well as live-coding examples of how to use some of the lesser known tags to achieve a very flexible and intuitive approach to developing DRY applications with Grails.

If you are a Grails Developer or just simply fed up with your current templating tools (I'm looking at you tiles) come learn about How Grails uses Sitemesh and apply some of the same principles to your Spring MVC applications.

About Colin Harrington

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.

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