Scott Hickey - Groovy Committer
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Consultant with Bass and Associates, Scott Hickey, has been developing software for over 20 years and working with Java since 1998. He is the lead developer for the Groovy Eclipse Plugin and has authored Groovy related articles for IBM developerWorks and AboutGroovy.com.
Scott's talks
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Groovy Success Story at Fortune 500 Insurance Company
Groovy 1.0 is available and you're considering Groovy for your next project. You search the web for more information and read all kinds of conflicting information. It's hard to distinguish FUD from fact. In this session, Scott broke through the hypothetical and discussed everything you want to know about using Groovy on a Java project. The information in this presentation is based upon two years of actual experience using Groovy as part of a large J2EE project at a Fortune 500 company. During this presentation, Scott covered compiling Groovy in Ant build scripts, test driven development for Groovy classes, and code coverage for Groovy classes. Decision points for incorporating Groovy into a real business project and strategies for mitigating risk, were also covered. Scott also reviewed code examples using Spring, Groovy collections, and Groovy decimal math.
Grails eXchange Presentation
Scott on a Groovy Success Story
Grails eXchange Podcast
Coming Soon!
Working with the Groovy Eclipse PluginGroovy 1.0 is available and you're ready to try it out. In this presentation, Scott showed how you can begin using Groovy inside of Eclipse. Project setup, mixing Groovy and Java, and debugging were all covered. The presentation also featuree tips and tricks from real-world project development using the Groovy Eclipse plugin and finished with an up-to-the-minute status of the latest features being worked on for the plugin.
Grails eXchange Presentation
Scott on the Groovy Eclipse Plugin
Grails eXchange Podcast
The Groovy Eclipse Plugin