Advantages of Groovy and Grails

Time: 
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Barrows Hall room 60
Speaker: 
Soeren Glasius, Identity Management Web App Lead
Description: 

Wednesday's session will showcase advantages of using the Groovy language and the Grails framework.

Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities. It runs on the Java platform (JVM) and is in many ways a superset of Java. The learning curve for the average Java coder is described as a "small speed bump" while the powers are described as "Java on Steroids".

Grails is a web-framework built on the "shoulders of giants". It acts as an easy, yet powerful layer on top of Spring MVC, Hibernate and Sitemesh. It aims at developer speed by applying "convention over configuration", sensible defaults and easy access to common functionality. It integrates easily with application containers (like Tomcat) on the JVM. Grails has a lively plugin community, where a wide variety of common functionality is captured.

Previous knowledge of Java, C, C++, PHP, Python or other programming languages is an advantage.

NOTE: 
The slides can be viewed at http://groovy.nu/ucb/#/ A recording of the meeting can be viewed at https://bluejeans.com/s/8ddD/

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Building Better Student IT Teams

Anna Blankinship, Student Leadership and Recruitment Coordinator, Student Affairs IT; Anne Marie Richard, Associate Director, Student Technologies, SAIT
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
150 University Hall

IT Accessibility Policy and UC Berkeley

Lucy Greco, Web Access Analyst, Web Accessibility Team
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
150 University Hall
NOTE:
A recording of the meeting may be viewed at https://vimeo.com/87608553

Update on the Campus Ticketing Tool Project

Michelle Bautista, Manager, CSS IT Program Technology Office; Luis Arias, Senior Project Manager, CSS IT Program Technology Office
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
150 University Hall
NOTE:
A recording of this meeting may be viewed at https://vimeo.com/86556110 The powerpoint presentation for this talk, as well as notes from the group activity, are available at: https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/CTSP/2013-12-19+Meeting+Notes+Micronet

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