November 11th, 2009 Meeting

Location: Auraria Campus-Tivoli Bldg; Room: TIV 320 AB – Baerresen Ballroom

*** Free Pizza @ 5:30 ***

Main Session Speaker: Matt Raible

“Building SOFEA Applications with Grails and GWT”

7:15pm -8:30pm

BC Session Speaker: Panel, Q & A

“How to Become and Independent Consultant: Panel Discussion Q & A”

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Basic Concepts – Panel Discussion ‘How to Become and Independent Consultant: Panel Discussion Q & A’

How To Become an Independent Consultant: Panel discussion; Q & A This session explores the trials and tribulations of an independent consultant. How do you find contracts? Should you setup an LLC, an S-Corp or just be a sole proprietorship? What about health insurance and benefits? Are recruiters helpful or hurtful? Learn lots of tips and tricks to get your dream job and your ideal lifestyle. Ski season is coming up after all. 😉

Panel: Matt Raible, Tim Berglund, Matthew McCullough, James Goodwill

Featured Talk: Matt Raible ‘Building SOFEA Applications with Grails and GWT’

In early 2009, Matt participated in a major enhancement of a high-traffic well-known internet site. The company wanted to quickly re-architect their site and use a modern Ajax framework to do it with. An Ajax Framework evaluation was done to help the team choose the best framework for their skillset. The application was built with a SOFEA architecture using GWT on the frontend and Grails/REST on the backend. This talk will cover how Matt’s team came to choose GWT and Grails, as well as stumbling blocks they encountered along the way. In addition, we’ll explore many topics such as raw GWT vs. GXT and SmartGWT, the GWT-Plugin, modularizing your code, multiple EntryPoints, integration testing and JSON parsing with Overlay Types.

Speaker:

Matt Raible resides in Denver, Colorado, where he runs Raible Designs, a consultancy that specializes in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. Matt has been surrounded by computers for most of his life, even though he grew up without electricity in the backwoods of Montana. Matt is an author (Spring Live, Pro JSP), active Java open-source contributor, and blogger on raibledesigns.com. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller project. Matt’s presentations can be downloaded from his website. Contact him if you can’t find one of his presentations.