Speakers

Kenneth Kousen

Author of "Making Java Groovy"

Ken Kousen is the President of Kousen IT, Inc., through which he does technical training, mentoring, and consulting in all areas of Java and XML. He is the author of the O'Reilly screencast "Up and Running Groovy", and the upcoming Manning book about Java/Groovy integration, entitled "Making Java Groovy".

He has been a tech reviewer for several books on software development. Over the past decade he's taught thousands of developers in business and industry. He is also an adjunct professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute site in Hartford, CT. His academic background includes two BS degrees from M.I.T., an MS and a Ph.D. from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I.

Blog

From now on, I’m calling it GroovyString

Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012

I’ve been doing a lot of introductory Groovy presentations lately, and an issue keeps coming up that I feel I have to address. I’ve had to think hard about how to do this, though, because I don’t want to be misunderstood. I’m promore »

Writing json output from a groovlet

Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2012

I’ve been working with groovlets for years and recently had to dig into them in some detail, and that lead me to a situation I’m simultaneously very pleased and rather horrified about. The appeal of groovlets is both their simplicity and thmore »

Elvis carried away by spaceships

Posted Friday, January 13, 2012

I love teaching Groovy to existing Java developers, because they have such a hard time holding back Tears Of Joy when they see how much easier life can be. Today, though, I did a quick demo that resulted in a line of Groovy that was so amusing I had to more »

Groovy StubFor magic

Posted Monday, January 2, 2012

I finished revising the testing chapter in Making Java Groovy (the MEAP should be updated this week), but before I leave it entirely, I want to mention a Groovy capability that is both cool and easy to use. Cool isn’t the right word, actually. I hmore »

Presentations

Spock: I Have Been, and Always Shall Be, Your Friendly Testing Framework

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The Spock framework brings simple, elegant testing to Java and Groovy projects. It integrates cleanly with JUnit, so Spock tests can be integrated as part of an existing test suite. Spock also includes an embedded mocking framework that can be used righmore »

Getting Good At Groovy Workshop

This half-day workshop will bring you up to speed on the specifics of the Groovy programming language. We'll touch on most of the major features of the language, from collections and closures to builders, AST transformations, and metaprogramming. Specificmore »

Get Going with Grails Workshop

Build a small but nontrivial Grails application from start to finish in this half-day workshop. We'll start with domain classes, apply constraints, add controllers and services, apply both unit and integration tests, and then add additional functionality more »

Grokking GORM (and Hibernate) Workshop

The Grails Object Relational Mapping (GORM) API is an elegant domain specific language on top of Hibernate. To really understand how it works, you need to understand how Hibernate sees the world. This workshop will explore the behavior of GORM, from follomore »