I’m doing a session at The Groovy and Grails Experience called “Grails UI Extreme Makeover”, so I thought I’d throw out a little teaser on how things are going…

The official blurb I’m putting up for the session, goes something like…

A tour-de-force of Grails plugins and Ajax tips and tricks where we turn a default Grails app into a Web 2.0 VC-attracting machine in 1.5 hours.

In this session we explore a selection of extremely useful and glamorous Grails plugins to turn a basic Grails app into a Web 2.0 buzzword factory. We’ll be looking a Tagclouds, JS Effects, Ajax, Searchable, Timelines, Feeds, Tabs, Hovers and Inplace edits and we’ll do it all live.

We’ll be taking a nice, but plain-looking ToDo app:

The Before Image

And doing a live transformation into a searchable, feedable, tagable, hoverable, tab-friendly, inplace editing, animated, ajax-breathing monster:

The After Image

It’s gonna be a really fun talk.

If you’re in North America from 21-23 Feb, make sure you drop by for a major Groovy geek-out…

In the meantime, I’m off to the beach for holidays… See you all soon!