ThirstyHead

About this original series

ThirstyHead is a training and consulting company that that specializes in leading-edge technology solutions like HTML 5, NoSQL, Groovy, and Grails.

# Episodes
20 episodes
Rating
TV-UN

Episodes of ThirstyHead

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  Peter Ledbrook on Grails Plug-ins
  
  "Grails in Action" co-author Peter Ledbrook talks about the Grails plug-in ecosystem, his experience writing and maintain his own plug-ins (JSecurity, GWT), being a part of the Grails Plug-in Collective, upcoming changes to the plug-in portal, and more.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 17, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    30:28
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  Hamlet D'Arcy on Groovy Compile-time Metaprogram...
  
  Hamlet D'Arcy, senior engineer with Canoo, has been in the Groovy community since nearly the beginning. AST transformations, or compile-time metaprogramming, have played a significant role in shaping not only the Groovy language, but innovative libraries like Spock and CodeNarc. Hamlet helps demystify this prominent Groovy feature.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 10, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    35:40
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  Graeme Rocher on Grails and NoSQL
  
  In part II of my interview with Graeme Rocher, Project Lead for Grails, we talk about the new strides Grails is taking to support NoSQL data stores. We also discuss which large public website have recently converted to Grails, upcoming cloud computing features, and improvements to the plug-in ecosystem.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 4, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    25:17
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  Graeme Rocher on Grails 2.0
  
  I sat down with Graeme Rocher, Grails Project Lead, to talk about the upcoming Grails 1.4 and 2.0 releases. From infrastructure changes (like the move to GitHub and Gradle) to enhancements (improved REST support) to new features (database migrations, runtime plug-in deployment), there's a lot to look forward to.
  - Release date
    
    Oct 29, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    22:14
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  Interview with Ken Sipe
  
  I was lucky enough to catch up with Ken Sipe recently. Ken is the creator of the Grails JMX plugin and a JavaOne Rockstar. We talked about Spring integration with Grails, JMX, and much more.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 18, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    25:29
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  Interview with Stuart Halloway
  
  I recently caught up with Stuart Halloway, author of "Programming Clojure" and the "Java.next" article series. We talked about how evaluating Groovy, JRuby, Scala, and Clojure eventually lead him to write a book on Clojure.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 31, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    31:27
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  Interview with Venkat Subramaniam
  
  I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, author of both Programming Scala and Programming Groovy. We talked about how each language fits comfortably into the toolkit of the modern Java developer. According to Venkat, "Groovy and Scala are good friends."
  - Release date
    
    Aug 17, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    27:55
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  Interview with Ted Neward
  
  If you've read Ted Neward's writings or heard him speak, you already know that: 1. he is a programming language connoisseur and 2. he is never short of opinions. Ever entertaining, Ted and I talk about his IBM developerWorks series "The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala", setting up Grails in front of the Microsoft Northwind database, and much more.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 10, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    21:47
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  Interview with Neal Ford
  
  In this interview, I sit down with Polyglot Programmer Neal Ford to discuss Groovy, JRuby, Clojure, Scala, and much more.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 3, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    28:37
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  Interview with James Ervin
  
  At a recent NFJS show in Salt Lake City, UT, I ran into James Ervin -- the technical lead on the Groovy/Eclipse plug-in. After a long day of sitting through presentations (and missing dinner, no less!), James was kind enough to sit down with me to chat about the future of this anxiously awaited bit of technology.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 21, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    23:32