This Week in Grails (2011-08)
Sunday, February 27th, 2011Lots of good stuff this week, in particular the conference news. Spring I/O was last week in Madrid and it looks like it was great based on the writeups and tweets. View several slide decks here
and articles here
(via @tomaslin
)
The two GR8Conf conferences announced their speakers and talks this week (I’ll be speaking at both and I’m really psyched for both of them). GR8Conf Europe is May 17th-19th in Copenhagen and GR8Conf US
is June 27th-28th in Minneapolis, MN. Early ticket prices are cheap now so get yours before the prices go up.
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Miscellaneous Items
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Grails Dynamic Domain Class Plugin 0.3 Released
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Grails Goodness: Define Date Format in i18n ResourceBundle
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Grails Goodness: Add More Paths to the Stats Report
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Customizing Spring Security to Fit Your Existing Domain Model
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Grails Goodness: The Template Namespace
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Grails Goodness: Templates Can Have a Body
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Grails Goodness: The Link Namespace
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Series: DSLs in Groovy, Part: 3
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Grails Goodness: Format Boolean Values with the formatBoolean Tag
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JQuery and Grails Form Builder Plugin 0.1 Coordinated Released
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-21
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-22
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-23
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-24
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-25
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Grails, Vaadin and Spring Security Core
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Groovy++ 0.4.170 is available
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So, who uses Griffon afterall?
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Apache 2 with Mod Proxy Connecting to Grails Run-app
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The Chemistry of enterprise content & Grails
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Remote Controlled Geb Functional Tests
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Grails Taglib : The template composition pattern
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This week in Spring: February 22nd, 2011
Plugins
There were 6 new plugins released:
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extjs
version 3.3.1.0. Provided Ext JS resources
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form-builder
version 0.1. Create Online Forms without Coding
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jquery-form-builder
version 0.1. JQuery WYSIWYG Web Form Builder
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json-rest-api
version 1.0.2. JSON RESTful API for GORM
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mongodb-morphia
version 0.6.3. Alternative MongoDB GORM based on the Morphia library (former gorm-mongodb)
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zing-chart
version 0.1. Allows you to easily integrate Zing Charts (http://www.zingchart.com) into your projects
There were also several updated plugins:
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aws
version 1.1.7.1. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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batch-launcher
version 0.4.3. Load and run batch (non-webapp) Grails applications
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binary-artifacts
version 1.0.1. Lets you create plugins comprised of compiled classes and handles their registration as artifacts
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cache-headers
version 1.1.4. Improve application performance with browser caching
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dojo
version 1.4.3.8. Integrates the Dojo javascript toolkit
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dynamic-domain-class
version 0.3. Create domain classes dynamically at runtime
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feature-flipper
version 0.2. Provides a mechanism to turn features on and off
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filterpane
version 2.0. Adds filtering capabilities
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freemarker-tags
version 0.6.0. Use Grails Dynamic Tag Libraries as Freemarker directives
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ic-alendar
version 0.3.1. Export event data in the iCalendar format
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jalarms
version 0.2. Send application notifications using a wide range of protocols via JAlarms
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lesscss
version 0.9.4. Less CSS framework plugin
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mongodb
version 1.0-M4. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
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paypal
version 0.6.1. Adds PayPal integration
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spring-security-core
version 1.1.2. The official Grails security plugin; integrates with Spring Security
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twitter4j
version 0.1.1. Send and receive Twitter messages using the twitter4j library
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vaadin
version 1.4. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration
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zk
version 1.0.2. Adds ZK Ajax framework (www.zkoss.org) support to Grails applications
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zk-ee
version 1.0.2. Enterprise Addons for the ZK plugin
Interesting Tweets
- @berngp: Amazing folks in the #grails community, they not only contribute with great code and ideas but also have the patience to teach others.
- @berngp: grails-jms 1.1 plugin is out now with support for sync & async receivers with selectors + the ability to browse queues.
- @icescrum: #icescrum R3#8 published : http://bit.ly/eaeUea (bug fixes and grails 1.3.7 upgrade)
- @antony: Upgrading all my systems to #Grails 1.3.7 – if anyone wants my Debian/Ubuntu package – http://bit.ly/eJ0OTC
- @basejump: wrkn on a new version of the Executor plugin for #Grails 2 support basic scheduling via the ScheduledExecutorService http://bit.ly/gyY4zp
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@tednaleid: regexp to find grails tests that muck with a Class metaClass:
\W[A-Z].+\.metaClass⁰⁰don’t forget to registerMetaClass and tearDown - @pledbrook: Getting started with #grails screencasts: http://grails.org/screencast/search?tag=gswg – only one atm, but more to come.
- @lucastex: I’m collecting ideas for #grails-aws plugin and #beanstalk integration: http://t.co/iuQk5mh (please RT)
- @erturne: #grails > #java: def listWithoutFoos = listWithFoos.grep { !(it ==~ /(?i)foo/) } . Do THAT in Java in a tweet with room to spare!
- @pledbrook: #grails core now has a multi-project #gradle build – great work by @graemerocher
- @ctrabold: Groovy seems to have a huge userbase in JP: http://grails.jp/g_mag_jp/ & http://www.jggug.org/
- @sigmundl: Need webdesigner with Grails skills for a project (e-commerce)
- @aalmiray: http://people.canoo.com/share for(tech in #spring #gwt #jee #groovy #grails #griffon #gradle) canno.helps(you).with(tech)
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
- @pmcneil: nerdErg is looking to take on a versatile coder/engineer to work on a variety of projects including grails. Ping me for more details.
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Opportunity for Groovy/Grails Developers at CA (Bay Area). reach me on 281-573-0930 or send profile to murali.akula@netmatrixsolutions.com
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Grails Developer contract 20-40 hrs/week
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Lead Software Engineer – Groovy/Grails (Seattle)
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Groovy Web Developer – Wellesley, MA
- @robpatrick: Recruiting web developers in York, UK. Java & JSF, grails experience an advantage. DM me for details.
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Medior/Senior Java Ontwikkelaar (Netherlands)
- @sigmundl: Need webdesigner with Grails skills for a project (e-commerce)
User groups and Conferences
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GeeCON 2011
- May 11-14, 2011 Krakow, Poland
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GR8 Conference Europe 2011
- May 17th-19th in Copenhagen
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GR8 Conference US 2011
- June 27th-28th in Minneapolis, MN
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Les tests du futur avec Spock !
- Paris Groovy and Grails User Group
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Legacy Data, SQL and Grails – How can they play nice?
- Philadelphia Groovy and Grails User Group
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Groovy og Grails for Javaudviklere
- GOTO GeekNight
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The videos of two talks last week at the London GGUG are up – check out How LSE has been using Grails
and Groovy & Grails: what’s all the fuss?