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Bashar Abdul-Jawad
Bashar Abdul-Jawad has content in March 2009, April 2009
Bashar Abdul-Jawad is a senior software engineer at Video Monitoring Services (VMS), Inc., and the author of Groovy and Grails Recipes, a book published by Apress. Bashar is a practicing Java, Groovy, and Grails expert, and has a number of web sites in operation today based on Groovy and Grails. Bashar holds a Masters degree in computer science from The University of Maine and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from The University of Jordan.-- Author of Groovy and Grails Recipes http://groovygrailsrecipes.com
Guillaume Alleon
Guillaume Alleon has content in October 2009
Guillaume Alleon is a research engineer with EADS Innovation Works specializing in distributed and high performance computing. Guillaume has presented his work in many national and international conferences. He is also the founder and main contributor of the GroovyWS module. He currently lives in Singapore with his wife and three kids. Guillaume's current interests include Groovy, Hadoop and social computing - he strongly believes in open source software. You can follow him on Tweeter at http://www.twitter.com/galleon
BJ Allmon
BJ Allmon has content in May 2009
BJ Allmon is a senior software developer for the leading medical management product company Click4Care. While freelance writing for the past 3 years he began co-authoring a book on integrating Flex with Java for Manning Publications due out later this year. He enjoys participating in at local user groups and conferences and becoming a more seasoned software practitioner. When he is not dabbling in software development he can be found spending time with his family of six and playing the six-string. You can learn more about what he's been thinking about at his blog http://bjallmon.wordpress.com.
Andres Almiray
Andres Almiray has content in November 2008, December 2008, January 2009, February 2009
Andres is a Sun Certified Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer with more than 8 years of experience in software design and development, currently working for Oracle as a Principal Software Engineer. He has been involved with web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He also has been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy, developer testing and swing hacks. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder to name a few). Recently he helped launch the Griffon framework, a project that delivers high productivity gains and an agile experience to Swing development.
Peter Bell
Peter Bell has content in May 2009
Peter Bell writes and lectures internationally on domain specific modeling/code generation, agile development and building web applications using dynamic languages. He is CEO/CTO of SystemsForge (http://www. systemsforge.com) and blogs on Groovy/Grails at http://gettinggroovy. wordpress.com and on other topics at http://www.pbell.com. He's also been known to Twitter at http://twitter. com/PeterBell.
Bob Brown
Bob Brown has content in May 2009, June 2009, September 2009
Bob Brown is the director and owner of Transentia Pty. Ltd.. Based in beautiful Brisbane, Australia, Bob is a specialist in Enterprise Java and has found his niche identifying and applying leading-edge technologies and techniques to customers problems.
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis has content in August 2009, October 2009
Joshua Davis was Born in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from Blackburn College in Carlinville, IL (1989) with a degree in Computer Science. Joshua has been programming in Java for 11 years. He now works for Cognizant Technology Solutions as a Senior Architect and resides in Gotha, FL.
Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle has content in January 2009
Brian works as a Software Developer in Jacksonville, FL for Idea Integration. He is currently assigned to the enterprise practice consulting division. His programming experience comes primarily from the JEE world. He is currently working with the Grails framework and Groovy. You can contact Brian at brian.doyle@idea.com
Damien Ferrand
Damien Ferrand has content in September 2009
Damien Ferrand is French now living in Canada. He works as a system administrator and software developer. He is currently working on a framework based on Grails for business applications. He can be followed on http://twitter@dferrand.
Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer has content in November 2008, July 2009, August 2009
Robert Fischer is an independent web development consultant who specializes in Groovy and Grails, Agile development practices, and technical team leadership. He has contributed to open source technologies in many languages, including Perl, OCaml, and Java, and currently maintains the Java Concurrency Handler (JConch) library, a Groovy-based DSL for Liquibase (Liquibase- DSL), and Grails plugins for launching background threads (BackgroundThread) and managing database migrations (Autobase). He can be reached via his consultancy page at SmokeJumperIT and also maintains a blog at EnfranchinedMind.com/blog
Shawn Hartsock
Shawn Hartsock has content in November 2008, December 2008, March 2009, May 2009, June 2009, August 2009
Shawn Hartsock is an Alaskan from the island of Kodiak that has been developing software since 1996. His development experiences have covered several continets and involved over a dozen progamming languages and platforms. Shawn recently made a plugin contribution to the Grails Plugin project and is currently a Senior Software Engineer for Clinipace, a software company based in Morrisville, NC that provides Software as a Service solutions to biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies as well as academic medical centers.
Mike Hugo
Mike Hugo has content in February 2009
Mike Hugo is an independent software developer in Minneapolis, MN and has been working with Groovy/Grails for almost two years. He also has more than seven years of J2EE web development, design, and tech lead experience with medical and banking clients in the Minneapolis area. He's the author of three Grails plugins including the Code Coverage, Test Template and Hibernate Stats plugins. Mike writes a blog on Groovy and Grails at: www.piragua.com
Masiar Ighani
Masiar Ighani has content in October 2009
Masiar Ighani is a senior software engineer/architect/trainer in the enterprise Java field. He has over 15 years of experience in this area and enjoys the wind of change Groovy and Grails are bringing to the Java community. He is a freelancer and located in Cologne, Germany. You can follow him on twitter username: grailsdev.
Christopher Judd
Christopher Judd has content in December 2008
Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, an international speaker, an open source evangelist, the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader, and the co-author of Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children's book 'Bearable Moments'. He has spent 12 years architecting and developing software for Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. His current focus is on consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, Java EE, Groovy, Grails and mobile platforms like iPhone, Android and Java ME.
Dave Klein
Dave Klein has content in November 2008, December 2008, January 2009, February 2009, March 2009, April 2009, May 2009, June 2009, July 2009, August 2009, September 2009
Dave is a developer with Contegix, a company specializing in delivering managed internet infrastructure based upon Linux, Mac OSX, JEE, and Grails. Dave has been involved in enterprise software development for the past 15 years. He has worked as a developer, architect, project manager (don't worry, he's recovered), mentor and trainer. Dave has presented at user groups and national conferences. He is also the founder of the Capital Java User Group in Madison, Wisconsin. Dave considers himself a migrant programmer and has worked in California, Minnesota, Texas, Wisconsin and is headed for Missouri. He is currently living in Portage, Wisconsin with his wife and 13 future consultants. Dave's Groovy and Grails related thoughts can be found at dave-klein.blogspot.com
Ken Kousen
Ken Kousen has content in February 2009, March 2009
Ken Kousen is President of Kousen IT, Inc, a company that specializes in technical training, consulting, and software development in all areas of Java, XML, and, of course, Groovy and Grails. In addition to his years of experience and a handful of certifications, it's been said he has more degrees than a thermometer (two BS, two MS, and a Ph.d., actually). He can be reached at ken.kousen@kousenit.com, his home page is at http://www.kousenit.com, his blog is at http://kousenit.wordpress.com, and he's also on Twitter as kenkousen. Best of all, he is the co-author (with Scott Davis) of the upcoming O'Reilly book 'Making Java Groovy,' to appear some time in 2009.
Guillaume Laforge
Guillaume Laforge has content in April 2009
As Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource, Guillaume Laforge is the official Groovy Project Manager, and the spec lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request that standardizes the Groovy dynamic language. He is also a frequent conference speaker presenting Groovy and Grails at JavaOne, SpringOne, QCon, the Sun TechDays, and JavaPolis/Devoxx. Guillaume also co-authored Groovy in Action along with Dierk Kˆnig. Before founding G2One, the Groovy/Grails company, which was acquired by SpringSource in late 2008, and taking the role of VP Technology, Guillaume worked for OCTO Technology, a consultancy focusing on architecture and agile methodologies. While at OCTO, Guillaume developed new offerings around Groovy and Grails for its customers.
Jorge Lugo
Jorge Lugo has content in July 2009
Jorge Lugo currently works for Constellation Software Engineering Corporation as a Software Engineer in Lanham, Maryland. He has been designing and developing software, mostly web applications, for 13 years. His primary area of expertise is in Java and J2EE. He enjoys working in multiple languages including Java, Groovy, PHP, JavaScript and Python. Jorge blogs semifrequently at: http://adevjournal.blogspot.com and jlugocp@gmail.com.
Ted Naleid
Ted Naleid has content in January 2009
Ted Naleid is a Lead Developer at carol.com, a healthcare startup in Minneapolis, MN (yes, there are tech startups in the midwest). He has more than 12 years of professional software development in a variety environments from startups to Fortune 500 companies. He is an active member of the Groovy Users of Minnesota (GUM), one of the largest groovy users groups in the world and he has almost 2 years of experience working with groovy and grails. Ted writes a blog with tips on Groovy and Grails at http://naleid.com
Dean Del Ponte
Dean Del Ponte has content in July 2009
Dean Del Ponte is a software consultant for Cornerstone Consulting, Inc. (http://www.cornerstone.net), a leading software solution provider in Milwaukee, WI. Dean is a strong supporter of open source software, agile development practices, and anything that makes the art of developing software easier and more cost effective for both himself and the client. Dean has worked in the IT industry since 1996 in a variety of roles including quality assurance analyst, software developer, and business analyst. Follow him on his blog: http://www.grailsblog.com or Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/ddelponte.
Mo Sayed
Mo Sayed has content in March 2009
Mo Sayed is a Sun Certified Programmer and Sun Certifiedd Web Component Developer with more than 13 years experience in software development. He is currently working as a freelancer in England, UK. His involvement with Java dates back to version 1.0 and has covered both desktop and web-based applications. He maintains a blog on Grails related issues at: http://moongrails.blogspot.com/ajax_grails_mo_sayed
Kirsten Schwark
Kirsten Schwark has content in March 2009, April 2009, May 2009, June 2009, July 2009, August 2009, September 2009, October 2009
Kirsten Schwark is a software developer for iDashboards (http://www.idashboards.com), a leading provider of business intelligence dashboard software. With over 13 years of software development experience she is an active supporter of the local development community, a regular speaker at local Java User Groups and an active member of the Detroit JUG, the AAJUG and the Flex User Group. She enjoys programming language theory and has a strong appreciation for the elegance and beauty of the Groovy programming language.
Scott Vlaminck
Scott Vlaminck has content in April 2009
Scott Vlaminck has been developing web applications for over a decade, and has spent most of that time using Java and J2EE. For the past two years, however, he's been enjoying the freedom of programming in Groovy using Grails. He's an active member of the Groovy Users of Minnesota and has contributed to both the Grails and Groovy projects. His weblog can be found at http://refactr.com/blog/ and he can be contacted at scott@refactr.com.
Erik Weibust
Erik Weibust has content in September 2009
Erik Weibust is a Senior Architect at Credera (credera. com), a Dallas-based management and consulting firm. He splits his weeknights with his wife and three kids and the two user groups he leads, JavaMUG (javamug.org) and Spring Dallas User's Group (springdallasug. org). For fun on weekends Erik watches his kids play sports, he roots for his Texas Aggies, and is active with his church, Water's Edge Frisco. If you want to know what Erik thinks about sports, technology, his family or church follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/erikweibust.
Craig Wickesser
Craig Wickesser has content in September 2009
Craig Wickesser is a software engineer at Proteus Technologies working in an agile environment using technologies such as Java, Flex, LiveCycle DS, GraniteDS, and Spring. He is also a writer for InfoQ, an editor for GroovyMag and a member of the DZone Review Team. Craig also tries to keep up with his developer/technology focused blog Digital Chicken Scratch. Craig lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, children and crazy Jack Russell Terrier.
Tyler Williams
Tyler Williams has content in June 2009, October 2009
Tyler Williams is an enterprise software developer with over 15 years of experience. He is a principal at DataTerrace, Inc.(http://www.dataterrace.com), a custom software development and consulting services firm in Charlotte, NC. Tyler is the author of several Grails plugins, including the ScreenWiz Plugin and DbUtil Plugin. Tyler also organizes the Charlotte Java User Group and is a member of the Central Piedmont College Technical Advisory Committee.
