Back from Groovy & Grails Exchange 2009

Or #ggx as it was tagged on Twitter. Surely conferences will start calling themselves stuff like #ggx2010  instead of “real” names to help their memes spread more thoroughly. Anyway, I degress.

I had a good time at the conference, very nice to meet up with real people who use grails and plugins. I was particularly interest in the keynotes and the talks by Burt (@burtbeckwith) on scalability and Venkat (@venkat_s) on DSLs. I was impressed by Sebastian’s (@sebi2706) iWebkit plugin talk too – it looks so easy to get an iPhone web UI with it. Although, I can see issues with user agent detection and using bean-fields plugin with it, that I would need to tackle first.

Anyway, there was a question that I didn’t ask at the parkbench panel at the end, which will be subject of another post…