Archive for May 23rd, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-20)

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The big news this week was the excellent GR8Conf EU 2011 in København. Lots of great talks, information sharing, and beer. Many thanks to the guys from Gennemtænkt IT for organizing things. The two sessions I thought were the best were Hamlet D’Arcy’s Effective Groovy and Václav Pech’s on GPars. It was also cool to go to the Hackergarten since that’s something I’d like to do regularly here in Boston and wanted to get some ideas on how to run them. The sessions from Wednesday and Thursday were videotaped and should be on parleys.com soon.

Mr Haki did a 3-part writeup of his conference experiences (Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3). There was also a lot of Twitter activity (search the #gr8conf hashtag):

@frankvilhelmsen: A a few snapshots pictures from the #gr8conf conference: http://bit.ly/ltnsWi
@rfletcherEW: View from the hotel. Weather matches my hangover. #gr8conf http://instagr.am/p/EWQXO/
@vaclav_pech: Just merged a #gr8conf #hackergarten contribution into #gpars. Thanks a lot, guys!
@rfletcherEW: Grails contributors being named & shamed by @pledbrook at #gr8conf http://instagr.am/p/EZFLN/
@darthvader42: everytime you call a maven target from a gradle build, a kitten gets killed #gr8conf
@glaforge: I think @hamletdrc should write a book called Effective #Groovy after his talk at #gr8conf 🙂
@rfletcherEW: Beer arrives. #gr8conf #want http://instagr.am/p/EZypM/
@rfletcherEW: Looks like some cross-pollination of ideas in the IDE space going on here at #gr8conf http://instagr.am/p/EbTXb/
@aalmiray: #gr8conf @vaclav_pech has his audience mesmerized with #gpars. You can hear people gasping with awe 😉
@mittie: quote of the day: “I *LOVE* DataFlow!” @vaclav_pech #gr8conf #gpars
@darthvader42: the downside of attending #gr8conf is that my “look-at-this-cool-stuff-later-on” list gets longer and longer
@xlson: Big round of applause to @sbglasius & crew for arranging a truly GR8 conference! #gr8conf
@gr8conf: The #gr8conf closing panel http://yfrog.com/hsuqekfmj
@rfletcherEW: Some links for those who enjoyed my #gr8conf talk: http://t.co/quWIL7E http://t.co/veujT0T http://t.co/V5RKYel http://t.co/kzsdLTG

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 4 new plugins released:

equals-hashcode-test version 0.1. Base Spock specification for testing equals and hashCode methods of domain classes and other Groovy objects
notifications version 0.2.1. Implements a publish-subscribe model to push information to subscribers through different communication channels
simple-modal version 1.0. Aims to make the use of jQuery SimpleModal easier
unshorten version 1.0.3. Expand links that have been shortened by any redirecting Link Shortener without the use of a third-party API

and 23(!) updated plugins:

activiti-spring-security version 0.4.3. Integrates Spring Security to Activiti as custom IdentityService
autobase version 0.12.2. Database migrations
cached-resources version 1.0. Provides a “hash and cache” mapper for the resources framework, automatically creating safe unique filenames for your resources and setting them to eternally cache in the browser
ckeditor version 3.5.4.0. Implements the integration layer between Grails and the CKEditor web rich text editor.
cloud-bees version 0.1.1. Adds scripts to integrate with the CloudBees client API
dbunit-operator version 1.6. Create initial data with the help of DbUnit
drools-gorm version 0.5.1. Integrates Drools 5.2 and jBPM 5 and provides persistent storage using GORM
feature-flipper version 0.3.2. Provides a mechanism to turn features on and off
fitnesse version 0.97. Makes it possible to use the popular Open Source testing framework Fitnesse in combination with Grails.
flash-helper version 0.7.6. Simplifies and standardizes the process of adding/reading messages in the flash scope
google-visualization version 0.4. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
gorm-couchdb-elasticsearch version 0.4. Integrates CouchDB with ElasticSearch, indexing domain instances using the Couchdb _change feed
joda-time version 1.2. Integrates the Joda Time date/time library into Grails
jquery version 1.6.1.1. Integrates jQuery
jquery-validation-ui version 1.2.2. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
mongodb version 1.0.0.M6.1. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
mongodb-multitenant version 0.1.2-ALPHA. Enables multitenancy for MongoDB
paypal version 0.6.4. Adds PayPal integration
redis version 1.0.0.M6. Integrates the Redis key/value datastore into Grails, providing a GORM-like API onto it
release version 1.0.0.M2. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
zipped-resources version 1.0. Integrates with Grails’ resources framework to automatically gzip static files
zk version 1.0.4. Adds ZK Ajax framework (www.zkoss.org) support to Grails applications
zk-ee version 1.0.4. Enterprise Addons for the ZK plugin

I just noticed that there are currently 599 plugins registered at the plugin portal – yours could be #600.

Interesting Tweets

@rgirodon: “Do it in weeks instead of months” they’re right, do it with #grails and / or #griffon mates
@kpshek: protip: ‘grails test-app -rerun’ will run just the tests that last failed. #thingsishouldvelearnedlongago
@pmcneil: pro tip: use TDD to develop your #grails controllers or they’ll quickly become untestable … I know 🙁
@jameschesters: Just published: @pledbrook on #Grails1.4 @skillsmatter — watch the video here http://bit.ly/lX8QfF #groovy #ggug #ggx
@marceloverdijk: grails install-plugin mongodb; grails uninstall-plugin hibernate #havingfunwithgrails #cfoundry
@nusairat: #grails 1.4 “Public methods in controllers are now treated as actions” … NICE closures never really made sense for actions.
@rfletcherEW: I was very impressed with how easy it was to deploy & update a #Grails app on #CloudFoundry. Much better experience than Elastic Beanstalk