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…

Just a refresher… I am a Grails contributor (although most code contributions are from a year or more back now, I’ve been too busy with plugins), and I have written the following plugins: functional-testing, navigation, email-confirmation, feeds, authentication, debug, static-resources, postcode and morph-deploy. As a result I have an in-depth understanding of the Grails ecosystem, as well as building real-world sites/applications with Grails for high profile brands.

I have also contributed to the mail plugin, and of course there’s my continued paid involvement in Weceem CMS.

My particular strengths other than coding are in architecting Grails plugins and applications, application usability and developer mentoring, and producing screencasts as training materials.

If you are interested please mail me at marc@anyware.co.uk

Well I’ve got capacity for new work for Jan 2009 onwards, as I’m nearing the end of my stint with Historic Futures, but still have some time to run on the Grails CMS project consulting.

Please drop me a line (marc at anyware.co.uk) if you would like to discuss.