Ken Rimple

KEN RIMPLE is a trainer, mentor, software developer, and musician who lives in the Philadelphia area. He has had an obsession with creativity in music and computers his whole life. His first real computer was a Commodore 64. At the same time he began his lifelong love affair with the drums. Today he’s a jazz drummer who plays whenever he can.

Ken has been active in emerging technologies since he entered the IT sector in 1989, at the dawn of the client/server movement. He’s worked on technologies from fat clients to databases to servers, ranging from WebLogic to Tomcat. He is currently immersed in Spring technologies, including Roo and Grails.

Ken runs Chariot’s education services where he teaches Spring-related VMWare courses, including Maven and Hibernate, among others. He also hosts the Chariot TechCast podcast, and blogs at rimple.com.

books by Ken Rimple

Spring Roo in Action
  • April 2012
  • ISBN 9781935182962
  • 408 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / Java

Spring Roo in Action teaches you to code Java more efficiently using Roo. With the help of many examples, it shows you how to build application components from the database layer to the user interface. The book takes a test-first approach and points out how Roo can help automate many of the mundane details of coding Java apps. Along the way, you'll address important topics like security, messaging, and cloud computing.