Archive for February 11th, 2013

This Week in Grails (2013-06)

Monday, February 11th, 2013

Several videos from Greach 2013 are now available on their YouTube channel.

Marc Palmer has announced that he will no longer be supporting any of his plugins (at least not for free). We’re looking into what makes the most sense for moving forward, especially for the more popular plugins like resources. Several of them will be moved to shared Github repos so the community can easily contribute. Be sure to check out his Kickstarter campaign and contribute so the outstanding issues in the resources plugin can get fixed.

There are two excellent looking Grails training opportunities coming up in the next few months. One starts this week and is a 10-week seminar at UC Berkeley. The other is a 2-day seminar in Boston April 22nd – 23rd.

The Groovy team is looking into updating the Groovy documentation and web site.

Check out these two interesting Groovy wiki pages: Advanced compiler configuration and Meta-annotations.

Season 2 of the Spanish-language Podcast de GrailsMX is starting soon. It sure would be cool to have an English-language Groovy and Grails podcast 😉

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were no new plugins released but 11 updated plugins:

aws-sdk version 1.3.30. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
cookie-session version 2.0.6. Allows you to store session data in a cookie
extjs4 version 4.0.7.1. Provides Ext JS 4 resources
jquery version 1.9.1. Integrates jQuery
routing version 1.2.3. Send and route messages to a wide variety of destination endpoints directly from your Controllers and Services using Camel
sham version 0.3. Uses the sham data generation library to generate test/demo data
sharding version 0.7. Defines multiple database shards to horizontally scale data
simple-blog version 0.3. Adds a simple blog interface to an application
spring-batch version 1.0.RC2. Provides the Spring Batch framework and convention based Jobs
spring-security-facebook version 0.12. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
twitter-bootstrap version 2.3.0. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files

Interesting Tweets

@asteingr: Using the GroovyLexer to scan #groovy source code: http://t.co/1aWDwUgc
@grails_rocks: I’m currently booking client work for March 2013 onwards. Let me know if you need some #Grails consulting/mentoring/dev http://t.co/cb3dQEQU
@CedricChampeau: Making some experiments around static traits for #groovy http://t.co/kCffR5Se
@grails_rocks: #Grails Resources 1.2 Kickstarter hit 21%, 56 backers so far. But where’s climate change “Hockey Stick” when u need it? http://t.co/1DDBKBt1
@nicholas_hagen: Best part about #Groovy is you start simple and fast but can still optimize like crazy: static compile, type checking, JDK alternatives, etc
@domix: Por cierto, el podcast de @grailsmx esta de regreso http://t.co/lb2oUqVD #grails #podcast The only Groovy related podcast in spanish #ahpm
@DailyGrailsTip: Support your favorite Grails developers by giving Luke Daley a git tip – https://t.co/kDBp7AC1
@craigburke1: Inspired by the annoying shoe related tweets with hashtag #grails, I’m going to create a new framework called either #swag or #yolo
@smaldini: right, @CompileStatic #groovy 2.1 and @DelegatesTo works with #spock , awesome to test type checked DSL !
@alvaro_sanchez: There is no place like GRAILS_HOME
@werdnagreb: #Groovy–#Eclipse now supports the Groovy 2.1 compiler. Install from the snapshot update sites http://t.co/IJ5s2KzF
@werdnagreb: #Groovy–#Eclipse now has snapshot builds targeting Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler). Install instructions here: http://t.co/IJ5s2KzF
@murdochjohn: Anyone who would like to have a #grails #groovy user group in #Berlin pls drop me a note … we can gather together and start it …
@CedricChampeau: Someone whispered in my ear that #spock worked with @CompileStatic #groovy 😀