This Week in Grails (2011-03)
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011This week was another good one for Groovy and Grails-related items, especially the job listings which do seem to be picking up. I’ve added a subsection with keyword search links for a few job sites and also a link to the @SpringSourceJob Twitter feed (Grails jobs are quite rare but we are hiring for various interesting positions).
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Miscellaneous Items
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PersistentHashMap in Groovy
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Grails Guide (in Portuguese)
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Testing Your Application (in Portuguese)
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Using Gradle in Practice
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Why Use Grails?
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Spring Hadoop (who wants to make the plugin for this?)
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This week in Spring: January 18th, 2011
- The title of this new series sounds vaguely familiar
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JDK 7 is Feature Complete
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Create your first grails plugin
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-17
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-18
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-19
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-20
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-21
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Groovy++ 0.4.150 Released
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Introducing groovyx.osgi: OSGi DSL for Groovy
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Working with the Grails Database Migration Plugin
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Grails + HTML5 = Works
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Testing gsp templates
Plugins
There were 2 new plugins released:
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feature-flipper
version 0.1. Provides a mechanism to turn features on and off. It is inspired by Flikr’s ‘flipping out’ work in this space to do the same, and the implementation is quite similar.
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jalarms
version 0.1. Send application notifications using a wide range of protocols via JAlarms
There were also several updated plugins:
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aws
version 0.2. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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activemq
version 0.2.1. Embeds ActiveMQ for messaging
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ajaxflow
version 0.1.19. Enables Ajaxified Webflows
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barcode4j
version 0.2.1. Generates barcodes using http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/
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cassandra
version 0.7.0.20110120.1. Provides access to Cassandra (not a GORM layer)
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dbunit-operator
version 1.5. Create initial data with the help of DbUnit
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export
version 0.8. Export domain objects to a variety of formats (CSV, Excel, ODS, PDF, RTF and XML)
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external-config
version 2.0. Provides easy and consistent facility to have externalized configuration files
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fixtures
version 1.0.3. Load test data via a convenient DSL
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gdsflex
version 0.8.5. Provides integration between Grails and Adobe Flex using Granite Data Services
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grom
version 0.2.2. Sends notifications on Windows, Linux, and Mac
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infinispan
version 0.3.8. Adds support for the JBoss Infinispan distributed cache
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spreedly
version 0.1.5. Provides access to the Spreedly online payment service API
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spring-security-core
version 1.1. The official Grails security plugin; integrates with Spring Security
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weceem-spring-security
version 1.0-RC3. Provides the glue needed to make Weceem plugin use Spring Security for authorisation and authentication
Interesting Tweets
- @harjinder: Thanks to #codemash peoples’ tweets, I started looking at Grails Framework.
- @thorntech: Love #grails. Rolled out 2 production apps today. One is driving the mobile website of a major US tax prep Co. Thx @wangjammer5 for the help
- @dokeeffe: Paying around with #grails. Wrote a small app. An rss and atom news feed aggregator for twitter http://jackdaw.me/
- @chochosmx: Muy buena impresión me dejó el ver lo sencillo que es hacer plugins para Grails. Qué buena arquitectura. #hgmx1 #jAlarms
- @aalmiray: #hackergarten delivers once more! grails-activemq 0.2 and grails-jalarms 0.1 released #hgmx1
- @finneycanhelp: cool #grails ! grails test-app -rerun “..re-run failed tests use the -rerun flag” http://grails.org/doc/latest/
- @graemerocher: First cut of the GORM to JPA transformer http://bit.ly/e3ozjw Now to improve the GORM-JPA plugin… #grails #gorm
- @tomaslin: params.list in grails is so awesome — http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/single.html#6.1.12%20Simple%20Type%20Converters
- @nusairat: dont forget … there is also a #grails console as well as a #groovy console. AWESOME way to test your db and smaller items
- @skurt: groovy is really groovy, doing something with eval.x() #grails #groovy
- @jesseriggins: Unit testing saves me again #grails #groovy
- @danklynn: Amazon “Elastic Beanstalk” looks awesome! Auto-deploy and scale your #grails app? http://bit.ly/idfIxM
- @SkillBuildersUS: I uploaded a YouTube video — Groovy And Grails for Sunguard Banner Users http://youtu.be/MI4Ml2iuFG4?a
- @SkillBuildersUS: I uploaded a YouTube video — Groovy & Grails Sungard Short.m4v http://youtu.be/M7RNHE9xjL8?a
- @ldaley: Auto update of SNAPSHOT Grails plugins working well, will be a new feature in Grails 1.4.
- @berngp: Is there a way to donate #beerpoints to a given #grails committer? There is some Aussie that is just pounding tickets all over the place.
- @krazyimran: I played with Amazon ElasticBeanStalk last night and it is awesome…deployed a grails app using Amazon RDS and it took all of 10 minutes. …
- @HamletDRC: Grails CodeNarc plugin updated to 0.12 http://is.gd/r7djho “grails install-plugin codenarc && grails codenarc” and you’re done!
Jobs
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Dice keyword search for Grails
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Monster keyword search for Grails
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Careerbuilder keyword search for Grails
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SpringSourceJob Twitter feed
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Java UI Developer – Contract, Dublin
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Grails Developer, San Mateo, CA
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Grails Software Developer – The Netherlands (at jWorks)
- @recruithurst: #developer #london #grails #agile I urgently require a permanent grails developer to join leading UK web portal, upto £65k.
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Principal Software Engineer at Innocentive in the Boston area
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Senior Software Engineer, Sarasota, FL
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Grails job in Finland
- @megs04: Phoenix – looking for Java Developers with knowledge of Grails OR Ruby. Ping me at Megan@cn-tec.com if you’re open!
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Grails job in Rome
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Music Industry – Innovative Web Developer required: Sydney AU
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Web 2.0 developer in Bangalore
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Grails Position in Burlington, MA Contract 3+ month
- @aaronksaunders: Tesla Government in N. Va is looking for #Groovy #Grails #Java developers, must be US Citizen. Pls send resume to hr.tesla@gmail.com
- @MantisJobs: Mantis is looking for sharp #Java developers who have experience in #Groovy and #Grails. Please send resume to recruiting@mantis-tgi.com
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8-week contract in Denver
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Java/Grails Software Engineer, Milpitas, CA
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Grails Developer (Virtual Office)
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Grails position in Saint Paul, MN
User groups and Conferences
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Spring IO 2011 in Madrid, Spain
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GR8 Conference Europe 2011, Copenhagen
- May 17th-19th – currently in “Call for Papers” phase
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Deploying and Running Grails in the Cloud
- San Francisco Groovy & Grails Meetup
- @rafael_luque: ¿Alguien interesado en crear un grupo G2 en la zona de Madrid? http://ow.ly/3EWn0 #groovy #grails
- @mengukagan: #grails groovy & grails ile ilgileniyorsaniz grails turkiye grubuna bekleriz! http://groups.google.com/group/grails-turkiye
- @darthvader42: good news: looks like the #munich #groovy & #grails user groups found some new location for the meetups. stay tuned.