Past Meetings - 2010
Virtual Private Cloud on VMware using tcServer 6.0, March 2010
Spring Roo, February 2010
Grails, January 2010
Topic: Virtual Private Cloud on VMware using tcServer 6.0
Date: February 10, 2010
I just set up a virtual private cloud on VMware using tcServer 6.0. It's not huge, but fairly complicated. I could talk about what growing pains we had to go through to get there and what benefits we're seeing from this architecture as opposed to the old monster app server model.
SpringSource likes what we're doing enough to do a case study on us. But truthfully, almost all of this could be done with plain old Tomcat. :)
Speaker: Jon Brisbin
Topic: Spring Roo
Date: February 10, 2010
Spring Roo went 1.0 around the new year and just had a 1.0.1 patch. So I'll lead a build your first Roo app, so bring your laptop (or we can pair up). I'll get some install media together so we won't need to download anything.
I really like Grails, but I don't always get to change the language on my work projects. Spring Roo brings a lot of the Rails-style convention-over-configuration goodness without having to change the implementation language. From a developer's user experience, it feels a lot like the Play framework, but with the Spring stack and Spring support.
Speaker: David Mitchell
Topic: Grails
Date: January 13, 2010
From the Grails site, "Grails is a high-productivity web framework based on the Groovy language that embraces the coding by convention paradigm, but is designed specifically for the Java platform."
During the presentation, the speaker will give away 3 copies of
Grails: A Quick Start Guide.
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/dkgrails/grails
Speaker: Gregg Bolinger
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