This Week in Grails (2011-34)
Monday, August 29th, 2011Micro Cloud Foundry, a downloadable VMware image that you can run locally to test Cloud Foundry, was released this week
. Check out Peter Ledbrook’s blog post
on using it with Grails, and also check out this post
on using it with Spring applications. In related news Cloud Foundry now has support for PHP and Python
.
There’s been some good activity with the user guide translations. There’s a discussion in the grailsEnCastellano Google group about working on a Spanish translation, and the approach they’re taking makes a lot of sense. They’ve setup a shared Google Docs spreadsheet
where people can signup for sections to spread the workload among several translators – so far Aitor Alzola (who does the Spanish translations of these posts), Alberto Vilches, Dani Latorre, and Domingo Suarez Torres have committed to sections. If you’re interested in doing a new language translation see this post
for how to get started.
Marc Palmer asked people to tweet why they love Grails and the response has been great. Search Twitter for the #whyilovegrails
hashtag for people’s responses so far, and tweet your own if you haven’t yet.
If you want to keep up with these “This Week in Grails” posts you can access them directly via their category link or in an RSS reader with the feed
for just these posts.
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Miscellaneous Items
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Custom Theming a Grails Application – Our Approach
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Our Grails Stats: but what are yours?
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Grails de alta performance – parte 2
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Testing Grails applications with Geb and JsTestDriver on a headless Bamboo CI server
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Grails, Spring Security, Facebook – In Depth Guide
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Stop Wasting Money On WebLogic, WebSphere, And JBoss Application Servers
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Grails Gotcha: Beware HEAD requests when rendering binary output in controllers
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Grails 1.3.7 and the dreaded SAXParseException
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Friday Repost: Groovy’s @Immutable pitfalls
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Spring AMQP 1.0 GA released
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New Releases: Virgo 3.0 and Gemini Web 2.0
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Eclipse Gemini Blueprint 1.0.0.RELEASE ships
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This week in Spring: August 23rd, 2011
Plugins
There were 3 new plugins released:
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compass-scss-integration
version 0.2.6. Compass, SASS and SCSS support for Grails
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gorm-native-finders
version 0.1. Query domain objects using native Groovy closures
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simpledb
version 0.1. Integrates the AWS SimpleDB datastore into Grails, providing a GORM API onto it
and 14 updated plugins:
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ajax-uploader
version 0.4. Tag Library which implements Andrew Valum’s excellent file uploader
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cloud-foundry
version 1.0.3. Integrates Cloud Foundry’s cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line
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google-visualization
version 0.4.1. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
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gorm-couchdb-elasticsearch
version 0.7. Integrates CouchDB with ElasticSearch, indexing domain instances using the Couchdb _change feed
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i18n-fields
version 0.6.1. Provides a declarative way of localizing domain classes’ fields for different languages
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jesque
version 0.11.M2. Groovier approach to using jesque
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jesque-web
version 0.11.M2. Web interface to view and manage jesque queues, jobs and workers
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json-rest-api
version 1.0.9. JSON RESTful API for GORM
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lesscss
version 0.9.6. Less CSS framework plugin
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lesscss-resources
version 0.5. Optimises the use of http://www.lesscss.org css files, compiling .less files into their .css counterprt, and place the css into the processing chain to be available to the other resource plugin features
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oauth
version 0.11. Provides easy interaction with OAuth service providers
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ulc
version 0.3.6. Provides access to the Canoo UltraLightClient (ULC) RIA kit
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uploadr
version 0.4.7. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
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zk-ee
version 1.0.5. Enterprise Addons for the ZK plugin
Interesting Tweets
- @evgeny_goldin: Love #Groovy with{ .. }! new File( fileName ).with{ absolute ? delegate : new File( outputDirectory, fileName )}
- @bobbywarner: Playing with #clojure in #grails for the first time today! It’s really easy with the plugin! Nice work @jeffscottbrown !!
- @rfletcherEW: Testing a #Groovy app that calls out to http services? You may be interested in Betamax. Feedback appreciated: http://t.co/Hoc3qAb
- @rfletcherEW: Betamax now has a (very basic) homepage: http://t.co/hKMbeR4, I’m in the process of trying to get it on Sonatype’s OSS Maven repo. #groovy
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@JVMHost: JVM Host – Grails Hosting – Grails 1.3.7 demo started at JVM Host!
http://t.co/L6CUc7l - @dofnup: My Grails skills bring all the boys to the yard … *shakes her scaffolding*
- @nofluff: Register Today for the 2011 SpringOne 2GX (Groovy/Grails eXperience)! Early Bird ends Sep 12th(save $200!) http://t.co/ddCEqsB #s12gx #nfjs
- @wangjammer5: #Grails users: Tweet with #whyilovegrails why you love Java’s best web app framework & get at least 1 new* follower: me (if I don’t already)
- @rajivnarula: Want to learn #groovy and #grails ? #Boston #courses http://t.co/ncDZwue
- @pstehlik: My @sfgrails co-founder @mikesalera is teaching #Grails and #Groovy at UC Berkeley Ext. this fall http://t.co/MF5m102
- @wangjammer5: Need some #Grails expertise on your project? I have ~50% availability 1st Sept. onwards. Drop me a line. http://t.co/Ho3AfsH [thanks if RT]
- @graemerocher: Documentation for the Amazon SimpleDB GORM implementation http://t.co/TDt8vgr #gorm #grails #nosql #aws
- @greach_es: Queda exactamente una semana para que se abra el registro de Greach! y tenemos 10 ponentes confirmados! #groovy #grails #griffon
- @wangjammer5: #Grails based travel site “Experience Oz” shortlisted in top 25 Australian travel websites: http://t.co/q4H67dH
- @sebi2706: Works for Grails too 🙂 http://t.co/jWfXhrM , very funny
- @graemerocher: Atlassian crowd-source translations via a #grails app http://t.co/GzqqP1d
- @tednaleid: Anyone else think we should start calling Grails + Linux + Apache Tomcat + MySQL the GLAM stack?
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@hammbe: #cloudfoundry #grails anyone out there play chinese chess? Check out http://t.co/NipLN7h.
Each move generates new URL you can tweet/email - @brianjohnsendk: Planning the next #gr8conf @ June 6.-8. 2012! It will be #groovy baby, yeah!
Jobs
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Senior Groovy/Grails/Java Developer in NYC
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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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SpringSource job search at jobs.vmware.com
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Senior Groovy and Grails Developer at Vsnap in Boston, MA
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Immediate Need for Java/J2EE/Groovy/Grails Developer (Washington, DC)
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Senior Roo / Grails developer at Halo Networks in London
- @useastjohn: Seeking Sr. SW Engineer / Product Mgr Lead with tech exp in Java, Python, Grails, C, C++, Perl, PHP, CSS, Javascript. Location is Midtown.
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@quantumts: 12 month contract in Maryland. Need #groovy on #grails and good #asp. #xml #java #wystar
steve@quantumts.com - @drab_makyo: Looking for lots of web developers! HTML/CSS/jQuery a must, Grails a super big plus! Louisville, CO. Let me know 🙂
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URGENT | JAVA Developer with Groovy Grails required in West Dublin – Permanent Job
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Java Developer – Groovy Grails JavaScript in London
- @ashfeist: is also looking for a Programmer Analyst with #GRAILS experience for a short term contract opportunity in #YVR!
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Technical Consultant (Linguistic Expert) in Alicante Spain
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Java J2EE Developer in Rockville, Maryland
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Groovy Grails/Java/J2EE Developer in Rockville, MD
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Java Developer with Grails in Cambridge, MA
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Groovy / Grails Developer – Hamburg, Germany
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Developer/Analyst – Grails in Tampa, FL
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Grails/Groovy Software Engineer – Chandigarh, India
User groups and Conferences
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CamelCaseCon – The Next Generation of Programming Languages
- 7. September 2011 in Düsseldorf
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SpringOne 2GX 2011
- October 25th-28th in Chicago, IL
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Greach
- 4 de Noviembre de 2011 en Madrid
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Groovy & Grails eXchange
- December 8th and 9th in London
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
- Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group