Archive for February 7th, 2013

This Week in Grails (2013-05)

Thursday, February 07th, 2013

Check out Cedric Champeau’s detailed overview of how to work with invokedynamic in Groovy.

Do you want Cedric to write a book on Groovy in French? If so, retweet this to let him know.

There is only about one week left to submit talks for the EU and US GR8Conf conferences – the deadline is February 15th.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were no new plugins but 8 updated plugins:

coffeescript-resources version 0.3.5. Create coffeescript modules that automatically compiles on every file change with jCoffeeScript
cxf version 1.1.0. Expose Grails services as SOAP web services via CXF
excel-export version 0.1.4. Export data in Excel (xlsx) format using Apache POI
google-visualization version 0.6.1. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
greenmail version 1.3.4. Provides a wrapper around GreenMail and provides a view that displays ‘sent’ messages – useful for testing
gvps version 0.4. Host, manage and display video assets, and convert standard movie formats to the Flash movie format FLV
localizations version 1.4.4.8. Store i18n strings in a database
uploadr version 0.6.1. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader

Interesting Tweets

@loboweissmann: Sabia que você pode encontrar programadores Groovy/Grails para seu projeto no Grails Brasil? http://t.co/nNxyQZuS (favor RT) #grails
@glen_a_smith: Ah. The cute and lesser-known Grails g:external tag is now part of my lexicon — favicons beware! — http://t.co/HDpnG3lZ
@Grails48: Awesome to see this. #Groovy and #Grails bootcamp in Madrid. Site looks great. http://t.co/rjbkvYcT
@wangjammer5: “@jmhodges: FYI, http://t.co/SmqYv588

Sucks for everyone involved.” << #grails repo is authd but not signed… Worth reading
@techieveej: Chosen AppFog over CloudFoundry for Grails. Web interface, 2GB RAM and choice of provider. 5 minutes to join and a running app deployed!
@DailyGrailsTip: You can now write database migrations in jaxb – http://t.co/SDxLQyqB
@marioggar: Anybody looking for a #groovy #grails developer? I’ll be available in March http://t.co/NUq4uBg9
@wangjammer5: I’m available for #Grails contracting work from next week. Get in touch if you need assistance with your grails projects.
@wangjammer5: OK so now I updated my résumé http://t.co/TSFgpu8T – I’m available for #Grails contract work from next week. Get in touch!
@DailyGrailsTip: Nacho Brito has made the Spanish Language Grails Development Guide available for download for free – http://t.co/9mkFVzSS
@glaforge: The remote feature of GroovyServ 0.11 is handy! http://t.co/YtLdmd3G #groovy
@DailyGrailsTip: Groovyblogs is an open source blog aggregator in grails – http://t.co/ocFm6YiU
@DailyGrailsTip: Here is an interesting case study on using Weceem for a mobile site in Grails – http://t.co/1RuCWz3A