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January 31, Birthday Party: Groovy Baby!

📅 2012-01-31
January 31, Birthday Party: Groovy Baby!

For the second anniversary of the GenevaJUG, let’s go for a travel in the Groovy world!

Join us the January 31, at Uni-Mail, room R070, with 4 Groovy-stars speakers, some gifts and surprises to discover the main projects of the Groovy ecosystem in four 30’ talks:

  • Groovy, the dynamic language for the Java platform, by Hamlet Darcy
  • Grails, the high productivity web framework, by Dierk König
  • Griffon, the Grails like application framework for desktop applications, by Andres Almiray
  • Spock, the testing and specification framework, by Mathilde Lemée

Speakers

Hamlet D'Arcy

Sr. Java/Groovy Developer, Groovy and CodeNarc Committer, Hamlet D’Arcy has been writing software for over a decade, and has spent considerable time coding in C++, Java, and Groovy. He’s passionate about learning new languages and different ways to think about problems. Hamlet is the founder of the Basel-based Hackergarten open source coding group, and regularly participates and speaks at local and international user groups and conferences. Hamlet is a committer on the Groovy and CodeNarc projects, and is a contributor on a few other open source projects (including JConch and the IDEA Groovy Plugin). He blogs regularly at [http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com](http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com) and can be found on Twitter as [HamletDRC](http://twitter.com/hamletdrc)

Dierk König

Dierk König

Dierk König works as a fellow for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is a committer to many open-source projects including Groovy, Grails, and GPars, and a manager of the open-source Canoo WebTest project. He is lead author of the “Groovy in Action” book, which is amoung the publisher’s best-selling titles of the decade.

Andres Almiray

Andres Almiray

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 17 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event.

Mathilde Lemée

Mathilde Lemée

Mathilde Lemee is a software engineer and architect with expertise in Java and enterprise technologies. She is dedicated to fostering good development practices and knowledge sharing.