Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Lead
At Google, Guillaume Laforge is Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, where he spread the word about the rich set of products and services offered for developers wishing to take advantage of the cloud for their projects and businesses.
Before joining Google, at Restlet, Guillaume was taking care of the Product Leadership around the APISpark API management platform, the Restlet Studio for crafting Web APIs and the Restlet Framework for authoring restful applications. He is also leading the Developer Advocacy team, to interact with developers using those projects.
Since 2003, Guillaume has been involved in the Groovy programming language project, leading the project since about 2004, and working on it under the umbrella of G2One (our Groovy/Grails startup), then SpringSource, VMware, and the Pivotal spin-off.
He initiated the creation of the Grails web application framework, and founded the Gaelyk project, a lightweight toolkit for developing applications in Groovy for Google App Engine.
He is also a frequent conference speaker presenting Groovy, Grails, Gaelyk, Domain-Specific Languages at G3 Summit, JavaOne, GR8Conf, QCon, and Devoxx, among others.
Guillaume also co-authored Groovy in Action along with Dierk König and Paul King, two famous Groovy committers.
Presentations
Books
Groovy in Action
by Dierk Koenig, Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, and Jon Skeet
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Groovy, the brand-new language for the Java platform, brings to Java many of the features that have made Ruby popular. Groovy in Action is a comprehensive guide to Groovy programming, introducing Java developers to the new dynamic features that Groovy provides. To bring you Groovy in Action, Manning again went to the source by working with a team of expert authors including both members and the Manager of the Groovy Project team. The result is the true definitive guide to the new Groovy language.
Groovy in Action introduces Groovy by example, presenting lots of reusable code while explaining the underlying concepts. Java developers new to Groovy find a smooth transition into the dynamic programming world. Groovy experts gain a solid reference that challenges them to explore Groovy deeply and creatively.
Because Groovy is so new, most readers will be learning it from scratch. Groovy in Action quickly moves through the Groovy basics, including:
- Simple and collective Groovy data types
- Working with Closures and Groovy Control Structures
- Dynamic Object Orientation, Groovy style
Readers are presented with rich and detailed examples illustrating Groovy's enhancements to Java, including
- How to Work with Builders and the GDK
- Database programming with Groovy
Groovy in Action then demonstrates how to Integrate Groovy with XML, and provides:
- Tips and Tricks
- Unit Testing and Build Support
- Groovy on Windows
An additional bonus is a chapter dedicated to Grails, the Groovy Web Application Framework.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.