Wednesday, 11/02/11 - November DFW Groovy Grails Users Group (DFW2GUG) Meeting

[Morgan Nelson]

Wednesday, 11/02/11 - November DFW Groovy Grails Users Group (DFW2GUG) Meeting 

MEETING INFO: 

     Social / pizza: 6:30 - 7:00 pm 

     Meeting time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm 

MEETING LOCATION: 

     Improving Enterprises 

     16633 Dallas Parkway 

     Suite 100 

     Addison, TX 75001 

     http://improvingenterprises.com/contact/ 

November DFW2GUG Meeting - Database Migrations in Grails

Abstract:  Database migrations are an important facet of web development. When an application is in production and the customer requests incremental changes to the database, the development team must have a rock solid plan to preserve the existing data while seamlessly adding new functionality and tables. Without a tool to manage database migrations, teams rely on manual sql, error prone communica-tion processes, and costly risk management to im-plement solutions. This presentation will cover the Grails Database Migration Plugin, the official plugin created by Spring Source which is based on the pop-ular Liquibase framework. With live examples, we will demonstrate how database migrations can be controlled, managed, and executed.

Bio: Nirav Assar is an independent consultant and owner of solutionsfit, a consulting firm based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. He has consulted on several projects in various industries, such as financial, real estate, government, and retail. His expertise is based in several Java technologies like Grails, Groovy, Spring, and Seam. Agile philosophy is at the heart of his profession, and he enjoys sharing techniques and tools that help software people excel at their jobs. You may contact him at ni...@solutionsfit.com. View his blog at http://assarconsulting.blogspot.com/.

TWITTER: 

     https://twitter.com/dfw2gug 

GOOGLE GROUP: 

     http://groups.google.com/group/dfw2gug 

WEBSITE: 

     http://www.dfw2gug.org/