Sydney Groovy/Grails User Group

In between meeting all the interesting folk at OSDC, I attended the Sydney Groovy (and Grails) User Group. I presented a short talk on the new features in Grails 1.1 then demoed the Portlets Plugin and new features in the WebTest Plugin 0.6. Dave Peterson then gave a great Intro to Gant talk with comparisons to buildr. Come along next time to hear more from Dave about Gradle :) The group is organsied by Nick Carrol from Thoughtworks and the venue (in The Rocks near Sydney harbour) was great. If you're ever in the area, get onto the mailing list and see when the next meeting is.

Open Source Developers Conference - Sydney Dec 2008

Myself and colleagues from Refactor will be attending the Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC) in Sydney from 2-5 Dec. It's a great conference to get in touch with developers who use and contribute to open source and find out what's on the horizon. I didn't get organised early enough to present any main sessions on Grails but am keen to do some lightening talks about it and also demo Balsamiq MockUps which I came across a few weeks ago. I think it's a great tool for agile BA's and product owners to really get their customers engaged. If you see me there, make sure you come over and say hi!