This Week in Grails (2011-01)

This week had a lot of activity – over 20 plugins were updated and there were a lot of job leads.

I’ve added a new section for Meetups, user group meetings, etc. I’ll post whatever I find, but if you run a user group please contact me in advance of the meetup and I’ll be sure to get it included in that week’s update.

Translations of this post:

• Traducción al español
• Grails每周观察
• Este artigo em Português
• Traduction française

Miscellaneous Items

• 8 Minute Grails Contact Manager
• Solving Tomcat Encoding Problems in UTF-8 Webapps
• Tomcat Expert’s Top 10 of 2010
  • Basic Tomcat Clustering for Grails Applications made #5
• I wrote a Groovy builder for URLConnection
• Using Gradle to augment your legacy Ant build
• Gloopfuse
• Twitter in 90 Minutes
• Interesting updates for the attachmentable plugin
• Grails and Griffon Fast Track
  • GPars integration instructions
• Concurrency and background tasks in Grails
• What’s new with Groovy and Grails Tooling in SpringSource Tool Suite
  • Webinar 2011-01-13
• My Case for DTO’s
• STS FAQ

Plugins

There were 5 new plugins released:

• blanq-mail version 0.3. Send asynchronous email
• content-buffer version 1.0-RC1. Use this plugin to append page fragments to pre-defined sections in your layout template
• sendfile version 0.1. Allow the use of sendfile or X-sendfile functionality of web-servers.
• jquery-plugin-authoring version 1.0.1. Template to make creating jQuery plugins easier
• weceem-spring-security version 1.0-RC1. Provides the glue needed to make Weceem plugin use Spring Security for authorisation and authentication.

There were also several updated plugins:

• activiti version 5.1. Integrates the Activiti BPM Suite and workflow system
• ajaxflow version 0.1.15. Enables Ajaxified Webflows
• attachmentable version 0.2.0. Provides a generic way to add and manage attachments
• batch-launcher version 0.4.2. Load and run batch (non-webapp) Grails applications
• extended-data-binding version 0.5. DataBinder configuration
• fixtures version 1.0.2. Load test data via a convenient DSL
• full-calendar version 1.4.10.1. Adds support for the FullCalendar jQuery plugin
• gsp-arse version 1.2. Parse scripts, css, special files as GSP
• jasypt-encryption version 0.1.2. Integration the Jasypt encryption library
• jquery version 1.4.4.1. Integrates jQuery
• jquery-validation version 1.7.3. Supplies jQuery Validation resources, and depends on the jQuery plugin to include the core jquery libraries.
• jquery-validation-ui version 1.1.1. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
• liquibase version 1.9.3.6. LiquiBase Database Refactoring
• multi-tenant-core version 1.0.2. Lets you run multiple ‘customers’ (or tenants) from one installation of a Grails application
• nerderg-form-tags version 1.1. Form Taglib
• rendering version 0.4.2. Render GSPs as PDFs, JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs
• remote-control version 1.1. Execute code inside a remote Grails application
• rest version 0.6. Enables the usage of HTTPBuilder
• smartgwt version 0.2. Integrates GWT and SmartGWT
• spreedly version 0.1.4. Provides access to the Spreedly online payment service API
• webdav version 0.3.1. Provides a webdav interface
• webtest version 3.0.1. Integrates webtest functional testing

Interesting Tweets

• @jeffscottbrown: Prerelease version of CoffeeScript plugin for Grails is available: http://bit.ly/dPy6Ay #grails #coffeescript
• @Reder: Migrating a Spring Application to Grails: Where do I put all my stuff? | Tomás Lin’s Programming Brain Dump http://t.co/EGFbnmd // 應該來試試…
• @stevegood: Writin’ some #grails integration tests this morning. I love the smell of “Tests PASSED” in the morning.
• @k_sze: Oh God. Form validation in Django is starting to look ugly (in comparison to Grails’ approach).
• @craigburke1: Grails Ajax List with Paging and Sorting http://bit.ly/dUMOPe #grails #ajax
• @tednaleid: released grails jasypt encryption plugin 0.1.2 yesterday…jasypt 1.7, hibernate 3.6 & grails 1.3.6 support http://j.mp/fjmxGe%0A
• @ryannorris: A colleague today called #Grails an “entrepreneurial” platform. I’ve never thought of a framework that way, but I think I like the idea.
• @jeffscottbrown: GORM named queries got a little slicker today: http://bit.ly/foGyCW #grails #gorm
• @limepix: Using Cometd 2.x with Grails « The MetaSieve Blog http://icio.us/T79eum
• @glaforge: Received 2 more #grails business opportunities in France in 2 days. Demand exploding here!
• @aalmiray: REST plugin for #grails just got a new set of awesome features. But don’t take my word, ask @berngp all about it 😉

Jobs

• @GetJavaJobs: J2EE DEVELOPER with Groovy on Grails or Ruby on Rails – Saint Louis, MO (http://tinyurl.com/2bfh33s) Get Java Jobs #Java #63101 #jobs
• @recruithurst: #Grails #Developer large project for totally new international web site, you will need strong Grails and AGILE development experience London
• @cybsearchjoe: Looking for a #Groovy and #Grails Developer… joe.wardzala@cybsearch.com
• @taulia: We are #hiring for various positions! please check it out here: http://is.gd/k72GN #jobs #sap #java #groovy #grails #developer
• @stephanysamuels: I am looking for a Grails Developer!
• @epragt: Are you a top #Grails developer and are ready to prove it? #jworks is hiring! Kickass team, good benefits, pm me.
• http://grailsjobs.com/view-job/183
  • 3+ month contract in the medical industry in the SF Bay Area (Redwood City)
• @recruithurst: #Grails #developer #London – I urgently require two experienced Grails developers – name your price….central London
• http://sanjose.areastartups.com/job/sr-java-software-engineer-grails-ror-mvc-1239
  • Sr. Java Software Engineer
• http://www.grailsjobs.com/view-job/184
  • 3+ months contract in the health care industry in Minneapolis
• @choenes: Economy in the tank? Nah–Need devs for an awesome project in Utah Valley. Looking for CSS/JS/HTML dev, several Grails devs. Retweet!
• @scorlog: Senior Java developers wanted with some/all of Spring/JPA/Grails/Maven/Jax-ws. Great package on offer. Contact me for more… J 🙂
• @summersoulTO: Will probably be in need of a #grails architect / sr developer pretty soon.
• @eriwen: My and @johnnywey‘s team at TWC needs 4 more great web and #grails devs. If you are near Denver, ping me if interested.
• http://public.bullhornstaffing.com/JobBoard/Standard/BHContent_JobDetail.cfm?privateLabelID=2610&jobPostingID=84
  • Object Partners is hiring in Minneapolis
• http://www.iwantanewjob.ie/display_job/316823/Java_Grails_Developer.html
  • Java/Grails Developer in London
• http://www.meetup.com/Grails-Boston/boards/view/viewthread?thread=10261423
  • Contract UI job in the Boston area

Meetups

• @glaforge: Déjà 22 personnes d’inscrites pour ma présentation #gaelyk au #groovy #grails user group. Pas trop mal pour la rentrée http://bit.ly/f2S1ye
• @jggug: まずは1/31(月)夜、IBM@渋谷にてG*ワークショップを開催します。内容はGroovy/Grails eXchange報告、Gradleの二本を予定。近日正式告知予定。 #jggug
• Twitter in 40 Minutes
  • Boston Grails Meetup
• Présentation Groovy / Grails par Olivier Gourment
  • Montreal JUG
• Groovy Testing Strategies
  • New York Groovy / Grails Meetup Group
• Groovy is not Java
  • San Francisco Grails Cafe Centro

This week had a lot of activity – over 20 plugins were updated and there were a lot of job leads. I’ve added a new section for Meetups, user group...

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