Philadelphia Groovy and Grails User Group

Meetup Reviews

Reviews from
October Groovy and Grails meeting on Thursday Oct 13, 2011

Meetup Rating
5.004

Attendees
15
Jason and Bob went over very interesting technology with a nice demos and easy to grasp content. Great job!
— Vlad Juylov
excellent topics; excellent speakers;
— Robert Rodini
Excellent presentations by Bob Rodini and Jason Gritman! Lots of good info and contacts at the pub for an hour afterwards too!
— Fred Stluka
Reviews from
Building Twitter With Grails In 90 Minutes on Wednesday Apr 27, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.505

Attendees
21
Very informative, Jeff Brown was very knowledgeable. Perhaps only downside was the time constraint; he was forced to use snippets to setup many items without time to explain specifics. Plus, unfortunately, questions at end were focused specifically on a plugin usage -- IMHO not important to the main topic -- and caused the event to run long.
— John Liberty
Excellent presentation. Mostly for beginners but I learned how to use JMS and RabbitMQ within a Grails app for asynchronous processing. Thanks for arranging Jeff's visit.
— Robert Rodini
Reviews from
Groovy and Web Services on Thursday Nov 11, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.004

Attendees
13
Great presentation and conversations afterward.
— Dave Klein
Great talk! Thanks! --Fred
— Fred Stluka
I liked it a lot, the sections on using SOAP, WSJAX and wsimport, were very good. I just kind of wish there was more information on REST, since that's the direction we're heading in our company.
— Chris Hunter
Reviews from
Pizza and Beer with Gradle creator Hans Dockter on Friday Jun 11, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.005

Attendees
11
was a great talk by Hans, who is really passionate about the topic (Gradle), and does not make you feel like he has only 62 minutes available.
— Anatoly
Interesting and thorough overview of Gradle. Hans is an engaging and entertaining presenter. Excellent group discussion as well. Looking forward to sticking around a little longer next time to learn more about the group. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.
— Aaron Kuehler
Anyone who has worked with a large Java build system knows how quickly it can become a nightmare to maintain. Hans explained the root causes of these problems with the current tools and the solutions Gradle provides. His live coding demonstations were a great way to understand the concepts of Gradle, from the basic features to the really powerful capabilities of the tool. Even if you couldn't attend the meeting, keep an eye on this project. The Gradle team really understands the pain points most developers have with build tools. I wouldn't be surprised if this was as ubiquitous as Maven in a few years.
— Jason Gritman
Hans is a force of nature. Gradle is a very powerful build language, and time after time he showed us how feature rich it is. Great speaker and I am so glad that he offered us a chance to host his talk.
— Ken Rimple
Great talk by an energetic, enthusiastic speaker about a really cool product. Thanks! --Fred Stluka
— Fred Stluka
Reviews from
Groovy/Grails Meetup at Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise on Thursday Apr 8, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.001

Attendees
9
Great speakers, good audience. Lots of great questions. Needed more time for some of the participants to learn about Groovy & Grails.
— Gordon Dickens