Niko & Java

A small summary of links to interesting things happened on the SpringOne 2GX conference hold this week in New Orleans from the outside, mostly observed from the twitosphere, with a modest emphasis on Groovy and Grails.

Notes and comments from attendees:

• Craig Walls’ notes from the Keynote
• Detailed session notes from Matthew Woodward (thanks to Jean Barmash)
• Ken Kousen on SpringOne 2GX 2009, Day 1 and Final thoughts
• RJ Salicco on SpringOne 2GX 2009, Day 3
• Mike Witters about Day 3
• Over all conference coverage: Post Mortem by Chris Dail (with some impressions when to use Roo vs. Grails)

Slide decks:

• Introduction to Groovy and What’s new in Groovy 1.6 by Guillaume Laforge
• Designing Your Own Domain-Specific Language in Groovy by Guillaume Laforge
• Practical Domain-Specific Languages with Groovy by Guillaume Laforge
• Dr. Paul King: Slides from “Groovy and Concurrency” talk
• Slides from “Industrial Strength Groovy” session (also by Dr. Paul King)

Interviews:

• A short interview with Graeme Rocher and Jeff Brown about some of the new features coming in Grails 1.2
• Interview with Chris Richardson (Cloud Foundry founder)

Some outstanding quotes extracted from twitter:

• Guillaume Laforge: “Nice :-) RT @twcrone Griffon rocks!!!! Client apps with Groovy. I know I’m a “Flex” guy apparently but I’d rather be writing Groovy.”
• Scott Davis: “GPars (Groovy parallel library) looks really, REALLY compelling.”
• Daniel Honig: “GPars makes concurrent operations in Groovy so trivial that it should be illegal.”
• Andres Almiray: “#griffon based slideware code available at git@github.com:aalmiray/griffon-talk.git clone, hack, enjoy! :-)”
• Gordon Dickens: “Cool stuff in #Gradle presentation from Hans Doktor dynamic builds using #Groovy” (Gradle 0.8 is out)
• Hubert Klein (aka Mr. Haki): Adding Groovy and Grails Support to SpringSource Tool Suite (STS)