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Peter Ledbrook is an engineer at VMWare and an evangalist for Groovy and Grails.

Discussion

• The Grails Podcast
• Groovy
• Grails
• JVM
• Static typing
• Dynamic typing
• Optional static types in Groovy
• closures
• Ruby
• Rails
• Java
• Spock
• Jar files
• EnvyCasts Video on Java Jar's
• Dependency management
• Java resources for Grails
• Spring
• Spring Beans
• Apache Camel
• Spring Integration
• Spring Security
• Servlets
• Breadth of libraries in a particular language
• Spring Social
• CloudFoundry
• Grails' Plugin Ecosystem
• Groovy web console
• Groovy books
• Groovy user guide
• Grails user guide
• Introductory screencasts on grails.org
• Groovyblogs.org

Peter also gave me these links via email for people to look at:

Groovy website:

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Documentation

Online Groovy console:

http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/

Groovy Blogs:

http://groovyblogs.org/

Grails user guide:

http://grails.org/doc/latest/

Free PDF book!

http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/grails-getting-started

Introductory screencasts:

http://grails.org/screencast/search/?tag=gswg

Chris Mattmann is a Software Engineer at NASA's JPL. He's the VP of OODT in the Apache Software Foundation and an adjunct professor at USC.

OODT is a framework for managing data from multiple sources and adding them to other data sources for different purposes (like a database and a search engine.) It manages hundreds of thousands of job in a day and terabytes or petabytes of data from various sources.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Apache OODT
• Nutch
• Hadoop
• Apache Software Foundation
• NASA
• NASA JPL
• ftp
• sftp
• Solr
• Lucene
• Hive
• File Catalog vs Search Engine
• Tika
• Goodle
• Project Management was the hard part
• Assume that failure happens and recover quickly
• Ganglia
• Torque
• PBS
• struts
• IDL
• CHLA (Childrens Hospital of LA)
• VPICU
• OODT Contact page (info on mailing lists, etc.)

Today I am joined by Karl Wright, Nokia engineer, ManifoldCF developer and author of ManifoldCF in action. We discuss ManifoldCF, an Apache Incubator project, its beginnings, its purpose and its inner workings.