This Week in Grails (2011-49)
This week’s big event was the 5th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange at Skills Matter in London. With two tracks and over 20 talks there was a lot going on, and having concurrent tracks meant making some touch choices in a couple of slots about which talk to attend. But luckily Skills Matter is great about recording talks and were cranking them out in record time – announcing most published talks during the session that followed them. Click through to the talk abstracts in the conference schedule to get to each of the videos.
Next year’s conference has already been announced; it will be December 12th and 13th. The first 50 tickets are only £95, so what are you waiting for?
My talk was an intermediate/advanced Spring Security plugin talk – see it here and check out the corresponding blog post for the slides and sample application.
Like any conference there was a lot of Twitter activity; here are some of the ones I found interesting:
- @russel_winder: @pledbrook Lunch meeting in the garden at Barbican GGeX 2007 kicked off #Gradle. I know I was there. #grailsx #ggx
- @rfletcherEW: Enterprise software “has much to do with pathology” – @hans_d at #grailsx #ggx
- @dsommerville_nw: Amazed by undocumented #spock ‘optimizeRunOrder’ which can run tests most likely to fail *first* to minimise feedback loop! #grailsx
- @antony: What sort of party are we going to have when we hit 1k plugins? http://t.co/uBxBP4r5 #grailsx
- @epragt: #grailsx Don’t use #hibernate update — Tip: indeed, use ‘validate’ instead!
- @epragt: #grailsx #wtf = web, twitter and forum @pledbrook
- @russel_winder: A few thoughts on my session at #grailsx yesterday http://t.co/ho8CxbGe #ggx
- @epragt: If you need to force your developers to write tests, you might have the wrong developers in your team… #grailsx
- @wmacgyver: Didn’t know about @Field in #groovy 1.8 for scripting http://t.co/xh6TCH47 #grailsx
- @dsommerville_nw: Really liking simplicity of #ratpack for developing lightweight RESTful webapps using #groovy and templating http://t.co/2MqoVxBG #grailsx
- @darthvader42: didn’t know about the #gradle dsl reference guide http://t.co/DobzpXcY #grailsx
- @epragt: Graeme Rocher really cares for the community, he even got dressed especially to be on the webcam with the audience. Limitless! 😉 #grailsx
- @dsommerville_nw: Betamax: #groovy port of VCR from ruby; real HTTP connections are captured and played back as canned responses in tests #grailsx
- @paulfairless: Remind me again why we’re not using the fixture and build-test-data plugins #grailsx
- @rfletcherEW: After #grailsx @smaldini finds the best place to sit in London http://t.co/OqS2dYkq
- @epragt: Sorry #grails people for messing up the demo, but the Groovy Android Console works again! http://t.co/SMxtKKKP
- @marcinerdmann: Almost home after a great #grailsx. Thank you everyone, #groovy is as much about technology as about people. See you next year!
- @ldaley: Completely and utterly exhausted after Groovy & Grails Exchange 2011. So many great talks and so many great people. #grailsx
- @tomaslin: Cloud Foundry t-shirts from #grailsx say ‘You bet your PAAS it’s open’ on the back. Not sure I will be wearing it those to client meetings.
p.s. this is the 1st anniversary of the beginning of this series – I know it’s trite to say, but I can’t believe it’s been a year already.
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Miscellaneous Items
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Countdown to Grails 2.0: Persistence
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Suggestions to keeping Grails one step ahead – a wishlist
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Integrating Google plus in grails application
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Installing weceem cms
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Apache Tomcat 6.0.35 Released
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Five Cool Things You Can Do With Groovy Scripts
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Spring Security 3.1.0 Released
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Grails: Noms de tables lisibles grâce aux packages
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The Art of Groovy Command Expressions in DSLs
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-05
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-06
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-07
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-08
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-12-09
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This Week in Spring, December 6th, 2011
Plugins
There was 1 new plugin released:
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marshallers
version 0.1. Easy registration and usage of custom XML and JSON marshallers supporting hierarchical configurations
and 9 updated plugins:
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cloud-bees
version 0.5. Adds scripts to integrate with the CloudBees client API
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dojo
version 1.6.1.3. Integrates the Dojo javascript toolkit
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jquery
version 1.7.1. Integrates jQuery
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proxool
version 0.9.1.5. Proxool jdbc connection pool plugin
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redis
version 1.1. Provides integration with a Redis datastore
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resources
version 1.1.4. A resource management and processing framework
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viaboxx-dbmigrate
version 1.3.1. Setup and migrate the database of your project
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webxml
version 1.4.1. Add additional features to your web.xml, such as Filters, Config Listeners or Context Parameter definitions
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weceem
version 1.1.2. A content management system
Interesting Tweets
- @aalmiray: #griffoninaction burning the midnight oil to get the last chapter (Productivity Tools) done before leaving for #ggx next week
- @nagai_masato: Cool. #groovy #eclipse plugin has supported quick-fix to add unimplemeted methods.
- @sjpwarren: Are there any #grails developers in Geelong, Melbourne, Surrounds?
- @alaverdyan: congrats to the Dev team at #be2 for their new “baby” (built from scratch) released in South Africa! http://t.co/f9bHe6tx #mongodb #grails
- @tomaslin: Grails Developers in London, avoid http://t.co/zDzyLHko, they send companies unsolicited email and bait and switch you on positions.
- @leosbiglife: Web UI Goodness with Grails CoffeeScript, Backbone and HAML!. Interested? I just uploaded a how-to example on github – http://t.co/d8ZH86Kh
- @glaforge: Une startup parisienne dans le réseau social qui fait du #groovy et #grails recherche des développeurs. Ca intéresse quelqu’un ?
- @CedricChampeau: First experimental statically checked GSP. Oh my, there’s still a lot of work to do! #groovy #grails
- @j_brisbin: Just apache-benched #Java #Groovy reactor fwk vs #nodejs streaming (1mb file x 100 concur users). me: 128ms, node: 267ms #JVM #FTW
- @simonthetwit: hellohouse.com is a new #grails project I’ve been part of in South Africa. We are still in beta but it’s good to be live.
- @rfletcherEW: Anyone interested in #grails 1.3 -> 2 migration, I’ve been blogging some findings here: http://t.co/OPsR4fSi Will be posting part 2 soon
- @tednaleid: just released grails-redis 1.1, new memoizeSet, memoizeList, memoizeDomainObject, & more + less locking of connections http://t.co/KjWFPHrH
Jobs
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Dice keyword search for Grails
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Monster keyword search for Grails
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Careerbuilder keyword search for Grails
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SpringSourceJob Twitter feed
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SpringSource job search at jobs.vmware.com
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Groovy/ Grails Developer – London
- @twcrone: My company, Lexmark International, if officially adopting #groovy #grails for its cloud services. Come join us! -> http://t.co/MSbZqxrG
- @gsaqui: Anyone who is at #grailsx and is looking for work – sky is hiring 10 grails developers for 2 green field projects – come chat to me
- @thoughtworks1: For open roles and further information please visit http://t.co/tCEK9W7u or speak to us at SkillsMatter #grailsx
- @ryanwilkins88: I am looking for a #Java #Developer with #Groovy #Grails experience for an exciting greenfield project in London. Know anyone?
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Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Applications and Tools at Netflix
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Lead Grails/MVC Developer – Contract or Perm – Bay Area, CA
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Web Application Developer (contract) in Lexington, KY
- @occurred: Job in Linz/AT: Java/Groovy/Grails-Junior-Developer – DM me for more information. #groovy #grails #java #job #jobs #linz
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@cfrerebeau: Fundspire is hiring developers. Interested to join a fast growing Startup: Require Java, Groovy, Grails or Javascript
http://t.co/eoDJiXl6 - @alicedice: Tengo dos vacantes full time. Uno para Java con Grails y otro Php con synfony. Informes y cvs a rh en vincoorbis.com. RT svp.
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Web Developer, Grails / ColdFusion, London
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Senior Software Engineer (Java/Grails) in Bethesda, MD
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Very Very Senior Grails Developer at Whats In My Handbag in London
- @david9472: Need a Sr. level Java developer. Would be great to have Grails/groovy experience. Need ASAP.
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Senior Java Developer, Groovy/Grails in the UK, Crewe & Nantwich
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Two Java Groovy Grails Developers
- @wangjammer5: Interested in #Grails doing dev work in 2012 for an International Technical Publisher in NJ/NYC? Contact me for details. #jobs
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Back End Java Developer (Groovy/Grails) in Hounslow, West London
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Spannendes Praktikum Java/Grails Bereich, Berlin
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Senior Grails Developer (Contract) at Mobiquity
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Senior Software Engineer – Java, Grails/Groovy
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Grails Developer (contract) in London
- Work from home 2 days a week on an open ended Contractor in Dallas, TX
- 4 Fulltime Grails Developer and 2 contract Grails Developers
- Urgent Opening at Bangalore, India for Groovy/Grails
- Grails/Java developer in Auckland
- Java Developer-Are you groovy? (Atlanta)
User groups and Conferences
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Holiday ‘Pub Night’ Meetup – December 14, 2011
- San Francisco Grails Cafe Centro
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
- Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group