Archive for August 1st, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-30)

Monday, August 01st, 2011

The big news this week is the 2.0.0.M1 release of Grails. This is a big release with a ton of features. Check out the Release Notes and the current user guide, in particular the What’s new in Grails 2.0? notes. Also check out the docs on using Grails 2.0 in STS.

Marco Vermeulen has updated his Ubuntu installation process for 2.0 and Rene Gröschke has updated macports.

I missed an item last week – Lucas Teixeira announced a new Grails-based site launch, Simbo – Real Estate Agencies Platform, which he describes as “a web-based platform for real estate agencies and individual agents”. Sounds pretty cool – check it out.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 4 new plugins released:

prototype version 1.0. Adds the Prototype, Scriptaculous and Rico JavaScript libraries and provides integration of those libraries with Grails’ Javascript tags
spring-security-twitter version 0.3. Twitter authentication as extension to the Spring Security Core plugin
weak-ssl version 1.0. Makes Java/Groovy accept any SSL certificate
minify-resources version 0.1. Leverages the resources plugin to apply minification to Javascript and CSS static resources

and 6 updated plugins:

plugin-config version 0.1.2. Simplifies plugin configuration tasks
batch-launcher version 0.5.6. Load and run batch (non-web) Grails applications
content-buffer version 1.0. Use this plugin to append page fragments to pre-defined sections in your layout template
notifications version 0.2.4. Implements a publish-subscribe model to push information to subscribers through different communication channels
release version 1.0.0.RC2. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
resources version 1.0.2. A resource management and processing framework

Interesting Tweets

@pledbrook: Do try the new #grails interactive mode – it’s brilliant! Check user guide for info. Screencast coming at later date.
@bobbywarner: GORM supports “bags” now (unordered collections with duplicates)!! Thanks @burtbeckwith #grails
@andy_clement: Latest #groovy #eclipse snapshot builds include Groovy 1.8.1 – grab them now!
@marceloverdijk: Whoomp! There It Is! Grails 2.0.M1 running on Google App Engine http://t.co/C1yzwYO #appengine #gae #grails
@satvaimal: http://grails.org/ + http://j.mp/rzgho + http://j.mp/4IPCbp + http://j.mp/kCXx2T + http://j.mp/o41qke = The WWW is yours. Take it!
@evilangelist42: A good idea to enable when it’s possible you may be echoing back user input: grails.views.default.codec=”html” http://t.co/4xfPvrW #grails
@bwilmsmann: Some recruiters can’t event get the name of technologies right. It’s not Groovy on Grails, Grail or The Grail, it’s Grails.
@madams: It’s unfortunate when you take the time to make a #Grails plugin but don’t take any time to document what it’s for. A shame really.
@hey_domiko: that’s it. I’m sticking with #Groovy (+Java). It has closures, actors. It’s easy to read and fast to learn. Why bother with other JVM langs?
@gstraymond: Ouverture de http://t.co/kutBxvp propulsé par le framework #Grails 🙂 #Groovy #cleverinstitut
@epragt: Follow our progress on the #Groovy #Android work on our live blog: http://tinyurl.com/3qqbde8 #jworks
@iartamonov: Finally! I did it! My first #grails #plugin have uploaded into central repo – http://t.co/DEYpy69 🙂
@kenkousen: The GRAIL mission from NASA has TWO, twin spacecraft. Too much to ask their web site http://1.usa.gov/l3fpVw run on #grails 🙂
@hockeymann44: Using #CodeNarc to clean up my #Grails -based home automation project. What a great tool for promoting good coding practices!
@hlship: Do you use #groovy ?, then you should be subscribed to http://t.co/aMsQqdd