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Speaker: Bill Gloff
Abstract: Getting Groovy with Google App Engine
Overview: This talk will give a brief introduction to Google App Engine and cover the different framework/API's a groovy developer has to choose from. It will then focus on the different features of a specific lightweight MVC web framework called Gaelyk (http://gaelyk.appspot.com) which was designed from the start to help developers with creating and deploying their Groovy based web application to GAE. You should attend if you want to learn how this new Groovy based web framework called Gaelyk hits the sweet spot for developing small to medium sized web applications for the Google App Engine.
Speaker Bio: Bill Gloff is a Senior Technical Architect for a boutique consulting company in downtown Chicago called CITYTECH. Bill has a MS in Computer Science from DePaul University and Sun certification in JEE web development. For the last three years he has been actively focused on alternative JVM languages, such as Groovy and Ruby, along with their respective web frameworks, Grails and Rails. He also enjoys exploring how cloud offerings such as Google App Engine, Amazon EC2 and Heroku can help clients get their products to market quicker. Bill is a co-founder of the Chicago Groovy User Group (http://cgug.org).
Location:
200 S. Wacker Drive map
Floor/Room: 15th Floor - ITA Nexus Offices
Chicago, IL 60606
Date/Time: Tuesday August 10th, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cost: FREE - REGISTER HERE
Food: Pizza and assorted beverages
Raffle: Free JetBrains License (IntelliJ IDEA/Team CIty Build Agent/RubyMine)
Sponsored by: CITYTECH, Inc.
