March Meeting

[Nick]

Hi All,

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 25th March. Hopefully
we'll have Chris Broadfoot giving us a rundown on Groovy 1.6
features. We'll also have James Williams giving a presentation on his
Groovy project called Griffin. Griffin is a Grails like framework for
developing desktop applications.

James' presentation will be broadcasted from the US, so we'll kick off
the meeting promptly at 6:30pm.

Please post in the forums if you will be attending so that I can
organise food.

Cheers,
Nick.

[Nick]

The Groovy meeting will be held at the usual venue: ThoughtWorks
office, Level 8, 51 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia.

Food should arrive at around 6:15pm.

[Ronaldo Junior]

Hi guys,

I am new in these group and I will be attending this meeting.

Cheers
Ronaldo

--
Ronaldo da Silva Gomes Junior

[Paul]

I'd like to attend

[rahul singh]

+1

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Nick <nlca...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ben Aveling]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Nick wrote:

> Please post in the forums if you will be attending so that I can
> organise food.

+1

Regards, Ben

[Maxim Kuchin]

+1

Will be first time on groovy user group meeting.

[Chris Broadfoot]

I'm so sorry guys,

I finish uni at 8 and need to jet off to hockey training which
finishes at 10:30 (every Wednesday). I'll be unable to give my
presentation on Groovy 1.6 but I might write up some sample code that
shows off some of the new features.

Cheers
Chris

[Nick]

Hi All,

Since Chris won't be able to present this Wednesday, I would like to
open up a session of lightning talks. Lightning talks should only go
for about 5 to 10 minutes, and are more about raising awareness of
Groovy/Grails features. So not a lot of preparation is required. I
will give a lightning talk on OpenID in Grails. I hope that others
will be able to contribute something too... cos there ain't no such
thing as free food and beer. :P

Cheers,
Nick.

[gianny...@ensta.org]

Hi,

If people are interested, I can talk a little bit about the upcoming
FreeMind 0.9.0 release and its very neat Groovy scripting integration.

In a few words, FreeMind

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

is a mind-mapping tool and Groovy scripts can be integrated to
programmatically manipulate mind-maps.

I developed a script to browse transitive Maven dependencies. This may
not be useful for those people who are not using Maven; thought, this
may generate more interesting ideas.

Cheers,
Gianny

[Nick]

Has anybody used CloudTools (http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/)
before? CloudTools is a groovy tool set for deploying Java
applications to Amazon's cloud services. There are also Grails
plugins for CloudTools.

[logalvatron]

Hi,

I'll be attending tonight.

Thanks,

Leon

[Alex Wei]

+1