Robert Fischer

Java Concurrency Specialist and GORM Expert; Principal, Smokejumper Consulting

Robert Fischer is a multi-language open source developer currently specializing in Groovy in Grails. In the past, his specialties have been in Perl, Java, Ruby, and OCaml. In the future, his specialty will probably be F# or (preferably) a functional JVM language like Scala or Clojure.

Robert is the author of Grails Persistence in GORM and GSQL, a regular contributor to GroovyMag and JSMag, the founder of the JConch Java concurrency library, and the author/maintainer of Liquibase-DSL and the Autobase database migration plugin for Grails.



Blog

New Gradle Plugin: DepNames

Posted Saturday, November 20, 2010

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JavaCC Plugin for Gradle

Posted Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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Ashlar Infrastructure is in Play

Posted Sunday, August 22, 2010

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Ashlar and Assumptions

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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Presentations

Architecting Code for Concurrent Execution: Theory and Practice

The power of multicore machines and cloud computing is all dependent on an application's ability to successfully leverage concurrency. Although concurrency has traditionally been considered fatally difficult in Java, a few simple architecture principles more »

Polyglot Programming on the JVM

Development of a program has traditionally been done in one language and one language only. Increasingly, however, JVM languages are being expected to interoperate with one another. This talk explores what makes polyglot programming possible, why businemore »

Demystifying Functional Programming: Jargon and Patterns

With languages like F#, Clojure, and Scala increasingly taking up mindshare, many developers feel pressure to jump into functional programming. The jargon of functional programming can prove a huge barrier, though, and it really shouldn't. This session more »

Grails for the Enterprise

The Grails web application is an innovative hybrid of best-of-breed Java technologies and dynamic/convention-based development. The result is a powerful, flexible, exciting framework that still fits comfortably into enterprise stacks. This session intromore »

Agile Practices Review: A Tactics Retrospective

Increasingly, people are adopting Agile practices a la carte, and some are even talking about "post-Agile" methodologies. If things are going to be changing, let's take a moment to review Agile development practices, the problems they were trying to solvmore »

Demystifying Functional Programming with F#

Although functional programming is getting a lot of hype, there isn't much help out there for those who want to learn the paradigm. This presentation introduces F#, an increasingly popular dot-Net functional language from the MetaLanguage (ML) family. Imore »

Books

by Robert Fischer

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