Archive for October 3rd, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-39)

Monday, October 03rd, 2011

Graeme announced that the release date for Grails 2.0 has been pushed back to November since we’re integrating Spring 3.1 and their schedule has slipped. This is a bummer for users who want to get their hands on the 2.0 final release, but good news since we’ll have some extra time to fix more bugs and polish things.

The Gradle team has started their own “This Week in Gradle” series. This is great news for me since I don’t actively follow things in the Gradle space (yet anyway) but a weekly summary will be very useful to keep up on where things are headed. Add their RSS feed to your favorite RSS reader to be automatically notified of new posts.

The Groovy development team will increase by one this week. Cédric Champeau will be starting Monday as a Groovy developer at SpringSource. This is great news for Groovy.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 11 new plugins released:

gordon-flash version 0.5. Protects flash scope from being cleared out unnecessarily
hibernate-spatial version 0.0.4. Provides support for using Hibernate Spatial in Grails
hibernate-spatial-hdb version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for H2/GeoDB
hibernate-spatial-mysql version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for MySQL
hibernate-spatial-oracle version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for Oracle
hibernate-spatial-postgresql version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for PostgreSQL/PostGIS
hibernate-spatial-sqlserver version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for Microsoft SQL Server
website-optimizer version 0.1. Provides tags to easily integrate Google Website Optimizer experiments into your Grails application
jquery-mobile version 0.1. Provides jQuery mobile framework resource files
memcached version 1.0.1. Helps integrate Memcached as the Hibernate 2nd-level cache provider
cloud-support version 1.0.3. Support plugin to help cloud plugins update service provider connection information from the cloud environment

and 7 updated plugins:

console-enhancements version 0.4. Enhances the grails console output for better visibility
google-visualization version 0.4.2. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
notifications version 0.2.5. Implements a publish-subscribe model to push information to subscribers through different communication channels
ruby version 1.0.M2. Use Ruby code in Grails via JRuby
twitter-bootstrap version 1.3.0.6. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
weceem-spring-security version 1.1. Provides the glue needed to make Weceem plugin use Spring Security for authorisation and authentication
yui-minify-resources version 0.1.2. Minifies static css and js resources using the YUI Compressor library

Interesting Tweets

@rfletcherEW: Some food for thought here: http://t.co/7j3S27jp wonder if there’s a neat way to implement a domain mapper pattern in #Grails
@glaforge: The commenting system of the most notorious UK newspaper is a #grails app receiving 4.3+ millions hits a day
@CedricChampeau: On monday I’ll start working at VMware/SpringSource on the #groovy language ! Really excited for this new challenge !
@dynamind: Posted a simple alternative to Spring WebFlow for Grails: http://t.co/bTmHXtrk