Tonight at SacGRU: Workshop using Gretty, Groovy++ and Gradle

[Steve]

Also, Grappy, the crappy framework in Groovy!

Although not the finest namer of technologies, Alex Tkachman is well known in the Groovy community for the joint compiler and a number of other language improvements, in particular in the area of performance.  He is also the creator of Groovy++, the lightning-fast, strongly-typed Groovy-like language compatible with Groovy and has recently written a number of articles on his work on Gretty, a Network server based on Netty.  Gretty is a Network server built from the Ground up on performance and simplicity of use.  Although I think it's in it's early stages (particularly for documentation), playing around with it would give us the chance to learn a bit more about it as well as the chance to explore Groovy++ and Gradle, the next generation build tool using Groovy for it's DSL.

To participate, bring a laptop with Git and Gradle installed.  The Gretty project can be found at:

https://github.com/groovypp/gretty  

We are meeting as always at aspect.  The address is:

1300 National Drive,Suite 180, Sacramento, CA 95834

You may call me at 916-451-1474 if you can't get in for some reason.

-Steve