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Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 8th and 9th, 2011.
Andres Almiray

Andres Almiray

About Andres

Andres Almiray Senior Software Engineer at Canoo Engineering AG and Java Champion Basel Area, Switzerland Computer Software Current Senior Software Engineer at Canoo Engineering AG Zone Leader at Javalobby Groovy Committer at Groovy @ Codehaus see all Past Principal Software Engineer at Oracle Corporation R&D Engineer at JackBe Sr. Software Architect & Consultant at IDS see all Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Recommendations 5 people have recommended Andres Connections 406 connections Websites Blog Java.net profile Ohloh profile Public Profile http://ch.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray Share PDF Print Summary Andres is a Java/Groovy developer with more than 12 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

Speaking Sessions

  • A Walkthrough Groovy's AST Transformations

    • 1:45 PM Saturday
    • Room 4204
    Learn all about the wonders of Groovy's AST transformations! Tweaking the AST at compile time is a very powerful tool however some developers may find this task a bit daunting as knowledge of the compiler internals must be attained before hand. But Groovy offers an alternative in the form of AST transformations. These set of classes will enhance your code at compile time without you having to write the modifying code by hand. In this session we will explore the set of predefined AST transformations that come bundled in the standard Groovy distribution, and perhaps we can cover some additional ones found in other projects.

  • Painless Desktop Application Development: The Griffon Experience

    • 3:30 PM Saturday
    • Room 4204
    Despite of all the buzz and hype around webapps over the last 8 years fact is that desktop applications are still found in many places, specially in the enterprise. However the legends are true: building desktop applications is a hard job. But it does not have to be. Enter Griffon. Griffon aims to bring back the fun and productivity to desktop application development in the same way Grails did it (and continues to do so) on the web. Griffon is rooted in the JVM but has Grails in its DNA. This means you'll find yourself right at home if you're a Java veteran, same goes for all of you that made the jump to Grails. In this session we'll cover the basics to get you started with Griffon. How applications are structured and built. Then we'll switch gears into high speed and cover topics like threading, testing, deploying, handling of legacy code and even network and database integration.