This Week in Grails (2011-50)
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011The big news this week was the release of Grails 2.0. It took longer than expected since we were waiting on the final release of Spring 3.1 but it’s finally out and the response has been great so far. There are a ton of cool new features, usability improvements and fixes. Check out Peter’s screencast on the new usability features.
We also announced support for deploying Grails applications on Heroku. The heroku plugin makes it simple to deploy a 1.3.7 or 2.0 app that auto-reconfigures your settings for the DataSource, Mongo, Redis, Memcached, and RabbitMQ depending on which services are provisioned for the application.
STS 2.9.0.M1 was released along with Groovy-Eclipse 2.6.0. Check out the New and Noteworthy features – it’s a long list.
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Miscellaneous Items
- GR8 in the US – Call for Presentations
- Some Groovy Love 🙂
- Peter Ledbrook’s “Grails in the Cloud” From SpringOne 2GX 2011
- Grails Spring Security RADIUS Plugin and Mobile One-Time Password
- Auto-create User Domain Object with Spring Security
- Leaving JSPs in the dust: moving LinkedIn to dust.js client-side templates
- Grails + Bootstrap + Amazon + Jelastic = djacc.com
- Notes on Upgrading to Grails 2.0 from Grail 1.3.7
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-12
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-13
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-14
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-15
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-16
- This Week in Gradle (2011-49)
- This Week in Spring, December 13, 2011 (Spring 3.1 Edition)
Plugins
There were 5 new plugins released:
- bulkload version 0.1. Export or bulkload all the instances of a given class from the client browser
- sendgrid version 0.1. Allows the sending of Email via SendGrid’s services
- spring-security-radius version 1.0.0. RADIUS support for the Spring Security plugin
- heroku version 1.0. Integrates Heroku’s cloud platform
- raphael version 2.0.1. Provides the JavaScript Vector Library Raphaël – cross-browser vector graphics the easy way
and 18 updated plugins:
- build-test-data version 1.1.2. Enables the easy creation of test data by automatic inspection of constraints
- cloud-bees version 0.5.2. Adds scripts to integrate with the CloudBees client API
- cloud-support version 1.0.8. Support plugin to help cloud plugins update service provider connection information from the cloud environment
- csv version 0.3.1. Easily parse and consume comma-separated values (CSV) from a number of input sources
- memcached version 1.0.3.2. Helps integrate Memcached as the Hibernate 2nd-level cache provider
- mongodb version 1.0.0.RC3. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
- redis version 1.1. Provides integration with a Redis datastore
- redis-gorm version 1.0.0.M8. Integrates the Redis key/value datastore into Grails, providing a GORM-like API onto it
- release version 1.0.0. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
- remote-control version 1.2. Execute code inside a remote Grails application
- remote-pagination version 0.2.8. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
- resources version 1.1.6. A resource management and processing framework
- riak version 1.0.0.M4. GORM for the Riak NoSQL datastore
- spring-security-facebook version 0.5. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
- svn version 1.0.1. Provides SVNKit as a dependency; an SvnClient class that makes it easier to work with Subversion; and integration with the Release plugin
- translate version 1.2. Translates text from one language to another using the Google Translate API
- twitter-bootstrap version 1.4.0.13. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
- uploadr version 0.5.6. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
Interesting Tweets
- @tomaslin: so London grails developers – who’s up to making hackergarten a monthly thing?
- @jonathan_stott: Just discovered Spring Insight in STS – invaluable for performance debugging #grails apps!
- @mittie: the next #groovy and #grails courses are coming Jan 23rd @skillsmatter London http://t.co/2XXdTa0E
- @rfletcherEW: #Groovy pro tip: if zero is a valid value (i.e. logically distinct from null) then FFS don’t use an int for the type. #twohourswasted
- @daveklein: For those who tried to get the ebook of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide when it was listed as out of print: it’s back! http://t.co/HfUtzsdO
- @vasya10: 5 java compilation errors in 20 seconds, all missing semicolons, damn you #groovy
- @werdnagreb: Help plan the next release of #Groovy–#Eclipse. What kind of refactoring and quick fixes do you want? http://t.co/h9WgqjFB
- @clickonchris: I gave a talk on #groovy and #grails back in July and did not realize it published on the net until today http://t.co/1iSWLgXV
- @graemerocher: Published an updated developer guide for folks interested in creating implementations of GORM http://t.co/a3FMxeuC #grails #nosql
- @mittie: eager to see this book by @GeertjanW coming: http://t.co/qqbnobtl on #groovy #grails #griffon in #netbeans
- @jameschesters: Check this out: @glaforge interview with @hans_d, recorded at #grailsx: http://t.co/V7LLPTpi @skillsmatter #gradle #groovy #grails #ggx
- @mariawennestam: Interested in #Spock and #Gradle? Watch @laforge interview with @ldaley recorded at #grailsx @skillsmatter here http://t.co/Tgj0oCky
- @FreshGroovy: Fresh Groovy: Grails 2.0 GA released for Ubuntu Linux http://t.co/TOn94Tl2
- @sarbogast: First tests of #Grails 2 on Heroku with ClearDB/MySQL are very conclusive. It’s very productive and works like a charm. Nothing can stop us!
- @greach_es: Ya está abierto el call for paper de Codemotion, enviad vuestras propuestas de charlas y talleres en http://t.co/vMMYceyO #groovy #grails
- @mittie: my own typo made laugh: grails upgradle 🙂
- @blukasz: Just found out: there will be a conference in Poland called 33degree with @glaforge among others. #groovy #grails http://t.co/sZEgqW9n
Jobs
- Dice keyword search for Grails
- Monster keyword search for Grails
- Careerbuilder keyword search for Grails
- SpringSourceJob Twitter feed
- SpringSource job search at jobs.vmware.com
- Systemutvecklare Grails, BP Bolagspartner AB, Lund
- Agile Developer – Java/Groovy at Cyrus Innovation in Boston/NYC
- @cupto: ¿Programas o programaste en Java? ¿Conoces grails? ¿Sabes qué es spring security core? Tengo trabajo para ti, informes aquí.
- @jimblizard: I’m looking for a Java web developer. #Grails or #Groovy experience is a huge plus. Local to metro Atlanta.
- Agile Java/J2EE Programmer Analyst with Grails (contract) in Dallas, TX
- @pmenglund: Wanna work with Cloud Foundry? We’re looking for a site reliability engineer for #cfoundry http://t.co/w50MjM5a
- @rforrestjr: Looking for Grails and java talented interns
- @brandyjfordcpc: Job opening for Cloud Software Developer J2EE Groovy/Grails UI paid relocation $$ up to 115K world-class company email brandyjford@gmail.com
- Grails Dev and More – Minneapolis, MN
- Web Application Developer at Refactr in Minneapolis, MN
- Back End Java Developer (Groovy/Grails) in Hounslow (London)
- Sr. Consultant (Java/Grails/iOS) at Object Partners, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN
- Programador Java con Grails – Madrid
- Старший web разработчик (Grails & Java) – Москва
- Sr. Developer (Grails) in Loveland, CO
- We are looking for Java Developers for my Client in San Antonio, TX
- Grails Developer Long term contract in Atlanta
- Full time Grails developer needed in Orange County, CA
- Looking for 4 Fulltime Grails Developer and 2 contract Grails Developers to start working on next gen product
- Software Developer in Duluth, GA
- Grails developer (contract) in London
User groups and Conferences
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Monday, December 26, 2011
- SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
- Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group
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Monday, January 23, 2012
- SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group