This Week in Grails (2010-52)

I expected things to be slower this week due to the holidays, but there were plenty of Grails-related items.

Starting this week these “This Week in Grails” posts will be translated into various languages. Thanks to Aitor Alzola for the Spanish translation, Hu Jian for the Chinese translation, Paulo Pereira for the Portuguese translation, and Nabil Adouani for the French translation. Contact me if you’re interested in doing a translation into another language.

Translations of this post:

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

Miscellaneous Items

• Introduction to Using Redis with Groovy
• Clustering a task executor queue with Terracotta in a Grails app
• More modular Multi Tenant plugin
• Should we use Grails?
• Customizing GORM with a Configuration Subclass
• Groovy++ article author needed ASAP
• MyPerfectGig pulls down $3.5M in new funding
  • Boston area company using Grails – http://home.myperfectgig.com/
• Twitter in 40 Minutes
  • I’ll be doing this popular talk and coding demo in a few weeks

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

• uni-form version 1.5. Making Web Forms Simple as 1, 2, 3
• coffeescript version 1.0-SNAPSHOT. Use CoffeeScript/ to generate JavaScript

There were also several updated plugins:

• codenarc version 0.8.1. Static code analysis for Groovy
• dynamic-domain-class version 0.2.1. Create domain classes dynamically at runtime
• grails-melody version 0.9. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool
• jquery-validation-ui version 1.1. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
• multi-tenant-core version 1.0.1. Lets you run multiple ‘customers’ (or tenants) from one installation of a Grails application
• multi-tenant-spring-security version 0.2.1. Integrates the multi-tenant plugin with the spring-security-core plugin
• spreadshirt version 0.4. Wrapper for the Spreadshirt/ API
• xfire version 0.8.3. Expose Web services using Grails service classes

Interesting Tweets

• @rlovtangen: Enjoying all the nice videos from #grailsx http://bit.ly/hZIWvA
• @cboldon: It looks like Google and the Grails crew got their stuff together. Grails apps seem happy deployed to AppEngine now. #appengine
• @flex_dennis: Reading: Flex Plugin 0.4 Reference Documentation: http://bit.ly/eKXfFd
• @tgrip: saved some time with the test data plugin of grails http://is.gd/jIyV6
• @sherlongerard: I joined nlgug – Groovy and Grails User Group Netherlands on Meetup. You should too! http://meetu.ps/Jpr
• @spidie: I’ve scheduled the regular #Groovy #Grails qld meetups again for last Monday on month – http://www.meetup.com/qldjvm/calendar/15851822/ #yam
• @ecamacho: It’s alive! and running on grails: http://javacup.javahispano.org/
• @linkedinevents: New Event: Complete Grails Training. http://bit.ly/e8n289
• @AnttiLoponen: @anttti Yo Dawg! I heard you like Grails so I put Grails playing in the office so you can listen to Grails while you code Grails
• @marcoVermeulen: Flicked the switch: #mailonline reader comments now running 100% on #groovy and #grails! http://bit.ly/huNcuJ Great way to end the year!!!
• @aalmiray: 50% off #groovy #grails #griffon #spring in Action books with code bestseller50 http://manning.com
• @lucastex: Trying to speed up your tests? $> grails interactive

Jobs

• @dsmalley: Seeking GRAILS developers for a great Mpls contract engagement!
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/grails-startup-support-group/iXCNl8iHDjA
  • Work for equity at http://www.dhyanllc.com/
• http://www.grailsjobs.com/view-job/182
  • Java/Grails Senior Developer at “a well-known technical book publisher”
• http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/7939
  • Software Engineer at Bloom Health in Minneapolis
• @Seattle_Jobs_: Seattle Job: Groovy or Grails and Jquery: Okaya Inc – Seattle, WA – Title: Java Developer Term: Contract… http://dlvr.it/CLxWP #Jobs

I expected things to be slower this week due to the holidays, but there were plenty of Grails-related items. Starting this week these “This Week in Grails” posts will be...