Archive for May 9th, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-18)

Wednesday, May 09th, 2012

The details for SpringOne 2GX 2012 are now online, it will be in Washington, DC this year, October 15^th-18^th.

The MongoDB plugin went 1.0 this week.

Jeff and I have been working on the cache plugin, which uses the new Spring cache abstraction and isn’t coupled to a particular implementation. The ‘core’ plugin has an in-memory implementation, but you’ll want to use one of the extension plugins for a more robust version. These currently include the Ehcache and Redis plugins and we’re working on one that uses Gemfire. All three plugins are available now and documentation will be available soon.

STS 3.0.0.M1 was released this week.

A couple more GR8Conf EU speaker interviews:

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 6 new plugins released:

bootstrap-crumbs version 1.0.0. Provide simple breadcrumb functionality using the twitter bootstrap library
cache version 1.0.0.M1. Adds request, service method, and taglib caching
cache-ehcache version 1.0.0.M1. An Ehcache-based implementation of the Cache plugin
cache-redis version 1.0.0.M1. A Redis-based implementation of the Cache plugin
seofriendly-urls version 1.0.2. Helps to easily convert any string into a SEO-friendly one, eg from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ to ‘the-lord-of-the-rings’
github-gist version 0.1. Uploads code snippets from a Grails project to GitHub Gists so you can easily share tested code in blog posts, etc.

and 9 updated plugins:

bootstrap-file-upload version 2.0.0. Integrates Sebastian Tschan’s Jquery File Upload (https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload)
coffeescript-resources version 0.3.2. Create coffeescript modules that automatically compiles on every file change with jCoffeeScript
cucumber version 0.5.0. Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
export version 1.2. Export domain objects to a variety of formats (CSV, Excel, ODS, PDF, RTF and XML)
hibernate-search version 0.5.1. Integrates Hibernate Search for domain classes
horn-jquery version 1.0.57. Provides resources and tags to use the HORN specification for embedding your JS data model in your HTML pages
mongodb version 1.0.0.GA. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
shiro-oauth version 0.2. Adds OAuth-based authentication to the Shiro plugin using the Scribe OAuth plugin
tomcat-bundler version 0.0.3. Simplifies bundling application with Tomcat to create a whole package to be used by hosting

Interesting Tweets

@pledbrook: Wow, you can sign in with Facebook and Google on http://t.co/vFJ21BEU too now!
@domurtag: Delighted with the service provided by @grails_rocks. They fixed my problem and gave me a free security audit. Highly recommended #grails
@seancorfield: new MEAP update for well-grounded java developer – nice! http://t.co/SqJ5HlRg #groovy #scala #clojure
@gr8conf: Students, don’t forget the #gr8onf student discount. Read more here: http://t.co/UonIE34q #groovy #grails #gr8technologies
@skillsmatter: #MongoDB at this month’s #GGUG – talks from @cj_harris5 & @seanjreilly @skillsmatter. Sign up: http://t.co/HSzt3hoU #groovy #grails #nosql
@tamatamatamata: I just became the mayor of GRAILS_HOME on @foursquare! http://t.co/frdZ6N6e
@energizedwork: We became a @springsource technology partner today for #groovy #grails and we’re excited about the collaborations ahead
@greach_es: ¡Greach te necesita! Call for sponsors: http://t.co/2BXyzGyP Please RT 🙂 #groovy #grails #griffon #gradle
@greach_es: Greach, the #Groovy Spanish conf is looking for new sponsors. Are you interested? http://t.co/fGwAbKxu #grails #griffon /cc @tomaslin
@TimSporcic: Grails tip: don’t use scaffold unless you like pruning dead code. Make every action & view deliberate.
@TeamMCS: Githubbed an example which shows the http-imposter working with Grails 2.0.3 https://t.co/0QByY4AJ #testing #http #rest #webservices
@gr8conf: The GR8 Beer and Groovy Ale is bottled and put in cool storage, ready for #gr8conf EU 2012 #groovy #grails http://t.co/pZMNMTcC
@jeffscottbrown: OH: “Your uncle Jeff helped make some software thing called Wavy Gravy, or something like that.”
@zanthrash: Made some awesome progress tonight on getting the #Grails Database Migration Plugin working with multiple data sources. #givingback