In Groovy and Grails

My JAX London 2010 talk now online in video form

Posted by: on Feb 25, 2010 | 6 Comments

I delivered my talk “Yes you CAN use Grails” yesterday at JAX London 2010, and it was well received. Unfortunately nobody was videoing it, and as the slides are “Presentation Zen” style you won’t get much from the official slides from JAX. It talks about Grails basics and how Grails is the perfect fit for existing Java development shops, and the things you need to know to make it possible to use it in your workplace. Well, at least you can try.

So I recorded myself doing the talk here at home and have uploaded a screencast of it all for those of you who are interested. Its not so good the second try – you had to be there for the best version :)

Click the thumbnail to download the MOV. Its about 47 minutes. Its probably going to cost me a fortune having it on Amazon S3!

Also available as a torrent.

People interested in making the case for Grails may be interested in an older post of mine that I’d completely forgotten about – “10 common misconceptions about Grails”.

6 Comments

  1. pratik patel
    February 25, 2010

    Marc, I throw my screencasts up on Vimeo. It’s free so you can’t beat the price :) I’m looking forward to watching it.

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  2. Paul Wallace
    February 26, 2010

    Reminds me of what I’m missing! Great presentation, you are a natural. Ever think of doing a series for someone like @tekpub ?

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    • Marc Palmer
      February 26, 2010

      Thanks Paul – very kind. Not heard of tekpub. Thing is, it takes days and days to put together a talk like this from scratch. There’s still more I would have done differently in this one. I just don’t have the time to do loads, unless someone wants to pay me to do it :)

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  3. Matt Passell
    February 26, 2010

    Anyone who wants to be nice and save Marc some money should download the video via BitTorrent. Just append “?torrent” to the end of the URL like so: http://s3.amazonaws.com/AnyWare/Blog/Screencasts/Yes%20You%20CAN%20Use%20Grails.mov?torrent It probably won’t make much of a difference if only a few people do it, but you never know…

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    • Marc Palmer
      March 1, 2010

      Thanks for that Matt, I didn’t know you could do that.

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  4. Marcus Olk
    March 5, 2010

    Hey Marc. Thank you very much for providing your excellent talk on Groovy and Grails. I couldn’t make it to visit the JAX in London and do really appreciate it.
    It is a very good teaser for JSF-burned-out web developers.

    Cheers,
    Marcus

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