This Week in Grails (2012-09)
Marc Palmer announced that he’s offering commercial support for several of his plugins this week. Check out the blog post blog post, the web site, and the “rocks” plugin.
Coincidentally (I assume) this week two different sites were announced that highlight Grails startups. Check out grailstartups.com and Tomas Lin’s “pinboard” app on Heroku.
GR8Conf US announced the speaker lineup and talks, and opened early bird registration. Be sure to
get your tickets now at the low initial price before the price goes up.
Masatoshi Hayashi has been doing some great stuff extending the database-session. First he released an extension plugin that stores session data in MongoDB, and he also announced the availability of a plugin that stores session data in a cookie. That one hasn’t been released yet, but you can check out the code here.
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Miscellaneous Items
- Grails应用的保险栓:Shutdown Hook
- Flavor of the month – Neo4j and Heroku
- Migration of the central plugin repository
- Simple Servlets in Groovy
- Grails in the Land of MongoDB
- Grails Goodness: Binding Method Arguments in Controller Methods
- QR Code and Bar Code rendering in Grails
- Quick Shell Function to Bootstrap a Gradle Groovy Project
- Grails findOrCreate and findOrSave Methods
- Grails 1.3.7 to 2.0.1 upgrade experiences
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2012-02-27
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2012-02-28
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2012-02-29
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2012-03-01
- http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2012-03-02
- This Week in Spring, February 28, 2012
Plugins
There were 5 new plugins released:
- functional-spock version 0.5-groovy-1.7. Allows you to write and run Spock specs under the functional test scope
- mongodb-gridfs version 0.5.beta. Use GridFS with MongoDB
- rocks version 1.0. Provides a UI and tools for working with plugins and also submitting Grailsrocks commercial support tickets
- mongodb-session version 0.1. Store HTTP session data in MongoDB using the Database Session Plugin
- mail-watcher version 0.1. Polls GMail for unread mails
and 19 updated plugins:
- commentable version 0.8.0. Mark up any of your domain classes as having comments and then use the tag library and partial templates to integrate comments into your views
- cxf version 0.9.0. Expose Grails services as SOAP web services via CXF
- cxf-client version 1.2.9. Use existing (or new) Apache CXF wsdl2java generated content to invoke SOAP services
- functional-test version 2.0.M2. Functional web testing using HtmlUnit to simulate the client browser
- geb version 0.6.3. Geb is a library for headless web browsing on the JVM, suitable for automation and functional web testing
- grails-melody version 1.12. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool
- hibernate-filter version 0.3.1. Integrates Hibernate Filters with Grails
- neo4j version 1.0.0.M2. GORM for Neo4j
- openid version 0.4.3. Provides simple authentication using OpenID
- pluginator version 0.2.1. Lets you define callbacks and properties in an application that are normally only available in plugins, e.g. doWithWebDescriptor, doWithDynamicMethods, loadAfter, observe, etc.
- profiler version 0.4. Makes it easy to collect timing information for several aspects of an application
- remote-pagination version 0.3. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
- simple-blog version 0.2.1. Adds a simple blog interface to an application
- spring-mobile version 0.4. Uses the Spring Mobile project to detect mobile devices
- spring-security-saml version 1.0.0.M14. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
- tomcat-bundler version 0.0.2. Simplifies bundling application with Tomcat to create a whole package to be used by hosting
- twitter-bootstrap version 2.0.1.18. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
- uploadr version 0.5.9. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
- zendesk version 1.0.3. Interface to Zendesk support system via their API
Interesting Tweets
- @pledbrook: There has been a secret “tutorials” section in the website for a little while: http://t.co/sUpkN19C – feel free to add other tutorial links!
- @rhcedan: When the cows realized they were framework-based… #grails http://t.co/fjv4zzWE
- @j_brisbin: #Groovy DSL for testing HTTP/REST apps (e.g. in #Spock spec tests): http://t.co/aALKN1Qz #SpringRestTemplate #FastAppPrototyping #Riak
- @asteingr: testing #gcontracts with @CompileStatic and @TypeChecked #groovy #2.0
- @SaturnEclipseUK: Choosing a user interface technology for our LTE network. Looks like we will be using a modern web based framework called #grails
- @johnrengelman: Issued my first pull request to #grails-core last night to fix some issues in #grails 2.0.1. Glad I could finally contribute back!
- @BoxerBucks: I accepted my first full time #grails position this week. Super excited to get started! #dreamcometrue
- @objectpartners: Using VIM as your Grails IDE Part 2 – In my previous post I walked through some of the plugins I use day to day for … http://t.co/1k32YUNO
- @Brain_Leg: http://t.co/rJGKgeuC is now getting over 1000 daily hits from #java and #groovy developers. Finished indexing stackoverflow exceptions today
- @mittie: #groovy and #grails training at linuxhotel Essen, Mar 12-16. Still places available! http://t.co/JWTOoWwt
- @stevegood: I get such a thrill when I see people requesting access to contribute to #grails plugins that they use. #opensource
- @cfxram: Updated #grails #dojo plugin for the 1.6.1.7 version. Updates to editor and dialog to support iOS.
- @darthvader42: every time someone uses the term “Groovy on Grails” instead of solely #grails a small kitten dies (and @burtbeckwith outcries) 😉
- @russel_winder: Anyone interested in a 1-day #Groovy learn-in, I am doing one at JAX Days London 2012-04-02 See http://t.co/j1gGS5Vn
- @CedricChampeau: #groovy If you have an AST xform which adds a method to which you want to apply an AST xform, here is a trick: http://t.co/xCvtja68
- @pledbrook: A new open source cloud data store from @VMware: #Affinitydb http://t.co/6BRchX0V – supports tables, graphs and documents!
- @sebi2706: Riviera GUG, we are searching for an host for our first meeting , anyoone ? http://t.co/A5yBBfrI
- @Gradleware: We are excited to announce that the Gradle O’Reilly Book is now online for free: http://t.co/Dk6HFCNr
- @CedricChampeau: Interesting figures about the #groovy codebase http://t.co/x4WeHUPZ
- @smaldini: #groovy #grails are suffering from their enterprise mainstream adoption, people work instead of blogging and hyping
Jobs
- Dice keyword search for Grails
- Monster keyword search for Grails
- Careerbuilder keyword search for Grails
- SpringSourceJob Twitter feed
- SpringSource job search at jobs.vmware.com
- Senior Software Developer at Conmio in New York
- Webentwickler Java/Grails (m/w) – Hamburg
- @objectpartners: Yup, we’re busy, and still hiring…. Want to join a rockstar team? Inquire within >>> http://t.co/avYvrIDB #grails #java #ios #jobs
- @stunberg: Getting request for position: – Grails/Groovy Sr. UI/Web Developer Let me know if you want details #groovy #grails #soundscool
- Grails Expert (contract) in Cleveland, OH
- @yarger_bluewolf: Familiar with Groovy on Grails? Software Engineering position available in TX!
- @WhoWhatBlogger: IMMEDIATE NEED: UI/UX Java Developer with Grails and advanced libraries – Telecommute – cool company. Apply today, start working tomorrow…
- HOT – Java/J2EE Backend Engineer in Bethesda, MD
- Ingeniero Software (grails, groovy) – Mexico, Distrito Federal
- Java Consultant in London
- Java Developers with Grails (Charlottesville, VA)
- Grails Developer in Toronto
- Sr Software Developer and Do-gooder for energy-saving SaaS (Groovy, Grails) in NYC
- Grails Developer at Straveda in Plano, TX
- @ZethaByte: Se necesita Ing desarrollador en JAVA , JSF, JPA , Grails aplicar por http://t.co/BIrVLTYY Cod Oferta: 583
- Telecommuting Java Developer UI/UX w/ Grails
- Graduate / Junior Web Developer ( Java ) at M-Square in Brisbane, Australia
- Analista Programador Groovy / Grails – Preventa – Pozuelo de Alarcón
User groups and Conferences
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GR8Conf Europe 2012
- June 6th-8th Copenhagen, Denmark
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GR8Conf US 2012
- July 29th-31st Minneapolis, MN
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Mr. Haki’s Grails 2.0 Sushi-sessie™ – March 6, 2012
- nlgug – Groovy and Grails User Group Netherlands
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March 8, 2012
- Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group
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April 3, 2012
- nlgug – Groovy and Grails User Group Netherlands