Archive for March 30th, 2013

This Week in Grails (2013-12)

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

The Groovy team released version 2.1.2 this week.

Check out Graeme’s blog post on the new async features in Grails 2.3.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 7 new plugins released:

google-analytics-tracker version 0.1. Provides a simple way to embed your web application with page view tracking and event tracking of Google Analytics
gorm-interceptors version 0.1. Interceptors for GORM methods (excluding find, countBy, addTo, removeFrom methods)
mixpanel version 1.0. Integration with www.mixpanel.com analytics
sanchez version 1.0. Integration for sanchez.js javascript/html/GSP templates on client and server-side
segmentio version 0.1.7. Use Segment.io to send your analytics data to any service you want, without you having to integrate with each one individually
tika-parser version 1.3.0. Bundles the Apache Tika toolkit along with a parser service
validate-config version 0.4. Adds methods to ConfigObject for validating expected and required properties

and 13 updated plugins:

aws-sdk version 1.4.1. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
clover version 3.1.11. Integrates the Clover code coverage tool
code-coverage version 1.2.6. Generates code coverage reports using Cobertura
facebook-sdk version 0.4.9. Allows your application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect)
geasyui version 0.7. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
gson version 1.1.2. Provides alternate JSON (de)serialization using Google’s Gson library
jaxrs version 0.7. Supports the development of RESTful web services based on the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JSR 311: JAX-RS)
jdbc-pool version 7.0.37. Replaces default Grails Commons DBCP Pool with Tomcat JDBC Pool” target=’_blank’>http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/jdbc-pool/)
jesque version 0.6.1. Groovier approach to using jesque
jquery-validation-ui version 1.4.4. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
recaptcha version 0.6.3. Integrates ReCaptcha and Mailhide services
spring-security-facebook version 0.13.2. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
uploadr version 0.7.1. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader

Interesting Tweets

@daveklein: Have Grails, will travel … but no more than 50%. 🙂
Let me know if you need a Grails developer. daveklein at http://t.co/f8qfvmHsiJ
@gr8conf: Surprise #gr8conf eu speaker: @springjuergen http://t.co/MytyqSSkGf on “Spring 4 and Groovy 2.0” http://t.co/FWLDTNeB6m #spring #groovy
@paulk_asert: #groovy 2.1.2 bug fix release (useful 4 Gradle, Grails, Grab, StaticCompile, GroovyDoc, joint compile users) http://t.co/in2vc7LiXx
@gvmtool: Groovy 2.1.2 now available on GVM! #groovy #gvm
@aalmiray: super excited by the upcoming domain and scaffolding #griffon plugins; inspired by Grails and JMatter, they’ll rock your socks off 😉
@graemerocher: End of an era. Goodbye install-plugin 😀
https://t.co/XvgHMdzmEP #grails
@mittie: #ReGina MEAP update is available, incl. mobile versions. Thx to @ManningBooks and my awesome crew of coauthors. #groovy
@tomaslin: Cool. Looks like SpringOne2Gx has added more #groovy/#grails speakers to their list http://t.co/VtT7NYCMWl
@gr8conf: #gr8conf EU Early Bird discount ends in two weeks (April 5th). Register now: http://t.co/QYUd5ER2sE #groovy #grails #gradle #griffon #gpars
@Paolo_80: Developed an IBM TAM switch user with #grails in 2 days and thanks to #jetty this web app will use SPDY. Awesome. #fb
@marcoVermeulen: Discovered this cool method in the #groovy gdk for truncating strings. “abcdefg”.take(3) == “abc”
@tomaslin: It’s been five years since I stumbled upon a little framework called #grails. Time flies.
@DailyGrailsTip: Console enhancements plugin allows you to make grails output easier to read – http://t.co/bBebvVeqJw
@aalmiray: in need of #groovy #grails #javafx expertise? look no further http://t.co/kIcc9lN43U hire me anywhere in the world