Archive for February 23rd, 2013

This Week in Grails (2013-07)

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

The Groovy team announced three Groovy releases this week.

Check out this interview with Jeff Brown on Grails 2 and Groovy.

Several more Greach videos were released this week. Check out the sessions page and click through to each one to view its video.

Rob Fletcher announced this week that he will no longer be supporting a few of his plugins.

Stéphane Maldini suggested a new grails.org theme.

Programming Grails went to “production” this week, so it should be in print in a month or so.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

dumbster version 0.1. Adds support for the Dumbster SMTP server for testing
geasyui version 0.2. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
recaptcha-spring-security version 0.1. Using recaptcha with spring security core for brute force defender

and 11 updated plugins:

build-test-data version 2.0.4. Enables the easy creation of test data by automatic inspection of constraints
coffeescript-compiler version 0.7. Compiles .coffee source files into .js files
cookie-session version 2.0.7. Allows you to store session data in a cookie
easygrid version 1.3.0. Provides a convenient and agile way of defining Data Grids
ember-templates-precompiler version 0.4.0. Precompiles EmberJS powered Handlebars templates
feature-switch version 0.7. Allows turning on and off of features
pretty-time version 2.1.3.Final-1.0.1. Displays human readable, relative timestamps
remote-pagination version 0.4.2. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
spreedly version 0.1.7. Provides access to the Spreedly online payment service API
spring-security-facebook version 0.12.2. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
underscore version 1.4.4. Simple plugin wrapper for useful Underscore.js library

Interesting Tweets

@OpenDolphin: upgraded to #Java 7 and #Groovy 2.1.1. With minor tweaks the performance test went down from 2.8 to 1.7 seconds.
@34m0: “open test-report” to open the test report quickly in #grails interactive mode – all the time I have wasted before knowing this!
@greymeister: Ratpack, lightweight alternative to #Grails (think Sinatra v Rails) https://t.co/jXjgziyk #awesome
@chandanluthra: #Grails #Groovy lovers. Get your free copy of Feb 2013 Groovy mag with this coupon code. 7p0d237 https://t.co/19LZiPzE
@cominvent: Need a standalone, portable runner for Groovy scripts? Try https://t.co/BVpRmfmv #groovy
@DailyGrailsTip: How to get Apache Mahout recommendations in Grails – http://t.co/EIyH22ZQ
@DailyGrailsTip: Profile Grails apps with VisualVM – http://t.co/r2WQWfPG
@albertovilches: Groovy script to replay Apache access.log in realtime http://t.co/1v4r5K0F #groovy
@epseelon: I think it’s urgent that we educate companies about #groovy and #grails: http://t.co/IKq5DI6N
@mittie: write your #scala code in #groovy : https://t.co/756Rw4Lh
@bgoetzmann: A screenshot of my #Grails app. showing a #TimelineJS with data coming from #DBpedia and queried with #GroovySparql. http://t.co/AWCoxlNF
@werdnagreb: Groovy 2.1.0 Static Type Checking DSLs now supported in Groovy-Eclipse. https://t.co/2SMzpWKJ
@DailyGrailsTip: Cinnamon CMS is an open source CMS written in #grails – http://t.co/8LWEQ5uY
@fergjo: primesBetween200And250 = (200..250).findAll{num ->
(2..num-1).every {
fact -> num % fact != 0}} <3 expressive #Groovy
@danveloper: Introducing #GDI, an incredibly powerful compile-time assisted dependency injection framework for #Groovy https://t.co/dBKMaIhY
@gr8conf: #GR8Conf Call for Papers count: 92 talks from 52 speakers! We got work to do! Expect to see first accepted talks within a week, be patient!
@rfletcherEW: Playing whack-a-mole with issues on a new #Grails plugin for using #GSON. Promising, but still work to do https://t.co/edkLIjqP