Archive for November 21st, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-46)

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

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The US and EU GR8Conf dates have been announced; the US conference will be July 21^st-23^rd and the EU dates are May 22^nd-24^th. Both conferences’ call for papers are open; submit for the US conference here and the EU conference here.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 4 new plugins released:

css-lint version 0.1. Runs csslint on css files
kissmetrics version 0.1.2. Allows your Grails application to use KISSmetrics APIs
rwt version 0.1. Integrates RWT – the web-ported Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) – to build your RWT and JFace powered user interfaces
vero version 0.1.0. Allows your Grails application to use Vero APIs

and 13 updated plugins:

aws-sdk version 1.3.24. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
closure-compiler version 0.9.1. Compiles/optimizes your javascript resources with the Google Closure Compiler
clover version 3.1.8. Integrates the Clover code coverage tool
cookie-session version 2.0.1. Allows you to store session data in a cookie
facebook-sdk version 0.4.4. Allows your application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect)
geb version 0.9.0-RC-1. Geb is a library for headless web browsing on the JVM, suitable for automation and functional web testing
gwt version 0.8. Incorporates GWT into Grails
html5-mobile-scaffolding version 0.4.4. Scaffolds HTML5 mobile application using jQuery mobile in a single page
jquery version 1.8.3. Integrates jQuery
kickstart-with-bootstrap version 0.8.8. Start your project with a good looking frontend, with adapted scaffolding templates for standard CRUD pages using Twitter Bootstrap
mongodb-morphia version 0.8.2. Alternative MongoDB GORM based on the Morphia library (former gorm-mongodb)
nerderg-form-tags version 2.1. Bringing Readability, Convention, Consistency and CSS to form design
vaadin version 1.7.0-beta9.1. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration

Interesting Tweets

@altfatterz: How cool is that the new website of #grails is community driven https://t.co/ELdtqzff currently running here http://t.co/XZPq9Z2M
@mittie: Due to popular request: #groovy refcard http://t.co/3qtaqZNk
@DailyGrailsTip: Want to isolate tests that stomp on each other? Read this useful blogpost by Ted Naleid – http://t.co/suzCJNK0
@benorama: Just released KISSmetrics Grails Plugin. Feedbacks welcome! #KISSmetrics #API #Grails #plugin https://t.co/sHFBg6NS @KISSmetrics
@DailyGrailsTip: Interested in adding strong encryption to your gorm domain objects? check out this presentation on Jasypr and Grails – http://t.co/QE3AXfqP
@winkler1: JSShaper is #groovy-style AST transforms for Javascript – http://t.co/5CUan9AO
@tim_yates: A #Groovy InterleavedIterator https://t.co/LyFccQCZ does something like this exist already?
@wingyplus: #Groovy snippets for #Vim https://t.co/KB28EVwR
@smaldini: coming back from Manchester where another great team will go #Grails and #Spring #Integration. Because it just works and it rocks.
@glen_a_smith: You can parse date params in Grails 2.x with params.date(‘myDate’, ‘dd-MM-yyyy’). #protip #wishiknewthatlastweek
@nobeans: “How To: Grails Plugin Development Best Practices” http://t.co/6XYnzx32
@tommmetz: Grails Command Center, GUI wrapper around #grails CLI: http://t.co/RCWhgE3N
@DailyGrailsTip: Writing a grails plugin with filters? Use the WebXmlConfig plugin to play nice with other plugins – http://t.co/4oR3PaRr
@ofirwin: For all #grails & #groovy developers – Please answer my short survey on development stack for Grails. http://t.co/jxdvhtqs
@tomaslin: Tell #grails to use drip instead of java seems to only involve setting export JAVACMD=’/usr/local/bin/drip’
@pmcneil: Just released a new version of the nerdErg Form Tags now with resourceness and up-to-datification http://t.co/RX4QvzT0 #grails #plugin