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{link:JSR 241|http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=241}{link} |
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{link:Groovy|http://groovy.codehaus.org}{link} |
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{link:Groovy|http://groovy.codehaus.org}{link} |
Location
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{link:Regis House|http://training.sun.com/GB/locations/london.html}{link} |
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{link:1|http://flickr.com/photos/jez/1368494/}{link} |
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{link:2|http://flickr.com/photos/jez/1368499/}{link} |
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{link:3|http://flickr.com/photos/jez/1368504/}{link} |
Date
- Thursday November 11th - Core decisions day
- Friday November 12th - Experiment day
Who Will attend
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role | whom | 11th/AM | PM | Eve | 12th/AM | PM | Eve
despot | James Strachan | yes | yes | yes | yes | a little |
driver | Guillaume LaForge | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no
| Patrick Mueller(IBM)| yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes
driver | Jeremy Rayner | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes
| John Rose (Sun) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes
|RobNewsome(CapGemini)| no | no | yes | yes | yes |
| * Philip Milne | yes | | | | |
| * Benedict Heal | yes | yes | | no | no | no
| * Neil Ellis | yes | yes | | | |
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| Aaron Alpar | | | | | |
| William Burdick Jr | | | | | |
|RandalHanford(Boeing)| | | | | |
| Derek Lane | | | | | |
| Geir Magnusson (Apc)| | | | | |
| Richard MonsonHaefel| | | | | |
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| Clinton L Combs | no | no | no | no | no | no
| Chris Poirier | no | no | no | no | no | no
| * Dion Almaer | no | no | no | no | no | no
| Rahul Tyagi | no | no | no | no | no | no
| John Wilson | no | no | no | no | no | no
|JonTirsen(Thughtwrks)| no | no | no | no | no | no
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Purpose
This meeting is going to be held for 3 primary reasons
planning & decision making
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problem solving & brainstorming
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information sharing & presentations - might be nice
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mini presentation from delegates about Groovy usage |
Jez - Groovy in the Press (points to learn) |
Guillaume |
others... |
Agenda
Thursday morning:
- Walk through agenda & define ground rules
- democratic... then autocratic despot if nothing can be agreed upon
- 'parking lot' - for issues to take offline
- Getting enough rest, eating right, and avoiding too much caffeine or other stimulants.
- Introductions
- James' keynote
- mini presentations
- _tea break_
- Work session on Project Definition Document (key deliverables etc)
- Brainstorming session to pick out issues for afternoon juicy stuff.
_lunch at nearby restaurant (pay for your own)_
Wiki Markup {link:12:30 @ Fineline|http://www.thefineline.co.uk/monument.htm}{link}
Thursday afternoon:
- Workshop on the main points defined in the morning scope
- scoping rules
- closure syntax
- break in closure
- classes are always objects
- declarations have values
- dispatching methods on Class
- Extending classes
- naming ambiguities
- object allocation
- open and closed blocks
- optional parenthesis
- optional semicolon
- Whitespace support
- block, label, curly braces
- property versus field scoping
- specifying GroovyMarkup
- statements have values
- static typing rules
Thursday evening:
- get out and discuss in a more friendly environment full of beer at the
Wiki Markup {link:London Java Meetup|http://javanicus.com/londonjava}{link}
Friday:
- Workshop on the minor points
- type casting
- Integer division operator
- syntax of operators
- Intra-Type Declarations
- Make sets a built-in type
- support 'in' as a contains syntax sugar
- use is instead of triple equals
- script file class naming and assembly
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| meeting requirements
venue | whiteboard + pens
venue | chairs for up to 14 people
venue | wifi ?
venue | near restaurants
all | your laptop (if you have one)
all | a stack of white paper with tricky groovy samples
all | snacks of your own.
jez | index cards + big black marker + blu-tack
jez | camera
jez | fourblocks (for electricity)
MrG | camera
jez | minidisc recorder + microphone + enough blank discs
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