Last week I attended the excellent inaugural gr8 in the US in Minneapolis (look for a review in the May edition of GroovyMag). This week I’m back in MN presenting at a ColdFusion conference on agile development and productive work practices.
in May, my Grails world tour begins! First stop, a presentation for the Sydney Groovy group on Tuesday May 4th while I’m down to present at WebDU. The week after I’ll be presenting in New York on Tuesday May 11th, and the week after I’ll hopefully be either attending or presenting at the London Groovy/Grails Usergroup – probably on Monday 17th. I’ll be presenting on DSL design and the Eclipse Modeling Framework that week at the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, before flying off for a day to the awesome Gr8 conference in Copenhagen (I’d love to attend both days, but am presenting at SPA on the Wednesday in London). Then back to London for another ColdFusion conference presentation (I love *all* dynamic languages on the JVM!) before returning briefly to chillax in New York (my home base) for a while. Back to the UK in June to present on Spring Roo at Code Generation 2010.
I’ve been doing work on domain specific modeling, DSL’s and software product lines for a while, but I’m really excited to finally be porting a lot of my SPL functionality on to the Grails framework. It’s an excellent stack with a really exciting community and I can’t wait to meet more Groovy and Grails developers around the world in the next few weeks. So, if you’re in Sydney, New York or London (or are going to gr8.eu), please say “hi” to the slightly jetlagged guy with a strange English/US accent – I’d love to learn from you all!
As to the preso’s, I’m focusing on practical DSL design. Guillaume Laforge does a great job of presenting on the syntax of DSLs, but there are a bunch of other issues to consider when designing, developing, testing, maintaining and evolving DSLs and I’m looking forward to presenting more information on that as it relates to Groovy and Grails as I continue to get more familiar with the stack.
(Hopefully) see you somewhere!
