Archive for October 10th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-40)

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Cédric Champeau has added a new Groovy Enhancement Proposal (GEP) for static type checking. This is for an optional stricter “grumpy” mode of Groovy similar to Groovy++ where the compiler will generate more warnings and errors to give developers feedback about problems earlier than if they were in traditional Groovy.

Lots of job activity this week, including five listings at Taulia in San Francisco.

Only two more weeks until SpringOne/2GX – it should be another great conference this year.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There was one new plugin released:

recurly version 0.98. Communicate with Recurly servers

and 13 updated plugins:

cloud-foundry version 1.2. Integrates Cloud Foundry’s cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line
cloud-support version 1.0.6. Support plugin to help cloud plugins update service provider connection information from the cloud environment
compass-sass version 0.4.3. Compass, SASS and SCSS support for Grails. Automatically compiles .scss/.sass during run-app, and adds other framework functionality
dbconsole version 1.1. Provides a web based database console for pre-1.4 apps
fsm version 0.6.5. Finite State Machine behavior
html-validator version 0.3. Uses JTidy to do sanity checks on html files
image-builder version 0.2. A simple image builder
new-doc version 0.2.1. A backport of the additional functionality offered in the doc command in Grails 2.0.x
sharding version 0.6. Defines multiple database shards to horizontally scale data
spring-social-core version 0.1.29. Allows you to connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter
spring-social-twitter version 0.1.28. Connect your applications with Twitter
taggable version 1.0. Adds support for associating tags with domain classes
tropo-webapi-grails version 0.2.1. Use Tropo’s cloud API to add phone, SMS and Instant Messaging support

Interesting Tweets

@graemerocher: Completely shocked during my demo at #javaone11. Sample app was an RSS app, loaded up the BBC feed and found out about Steve Jobs. RIP
@evgeny_goldin: Note to myself: list.findAll{ it } == list.grep(), stop using findAll where unnesessary. #groovy
@vaclav_pech: Call me paranoid, but “final” is now my default choice over “def” in #groovy
@javahispano: Reserva tu entrada para #Greach antes de que termine el periodo de inscripción reducida! #Groovy #Grails http://ow.ly/6LDfh
@daveklein: A cool new (Grails based) tool for making your internet marketing more effective. Check out the BringShare Beta – http://t.co/TvK8d7in
@werdnagreb: #Groovy–#Eclipse 2.5.2 is released:
http://j.mp/qUjkwZ
Enhanced type inferencing, better maven support, and more!
@palge: Anyone interested in starting a Grails User Group in Vancouver?
@spidie: #gr8conf AU site is now up at http://t.co/wAeeqJJQ – please send us your submissions. #groovy #grails #gradle #osdc2011
@ArturoHerrero: Things you can do but better leave undone in #Groovy http://ow.ly/6MRh7
@tomaslin: Here is a #groovy script that will allow you to import your @pivotaltracker stories into a @trelloApp board using #Geb http://t.co/St8doIsd
@joesondow: Grails 2.0 auto-created tests fail by default so you remember to change them. #javaone11
@carlosqt: #scala #groovy #clojure #jython #jruby #java #jobs trends http://t.co/ABtPS1XG
@toby55kij: ニューキャストが開発、Powered by Grailsなvivicalの滋賀版。運営会社の社長さんがbjリーグ滋賀の社外取締役。 http://t.co/Qf508gq9 #grails #bjleague #bjshiga
@tfnico: #Groovy Meetup launched in Oslo! http://t.co/Ycl7glHr via @akafred
@carpago: And I think #sqlmap rocks! At least: my grails apps are all sql-injection proof! Nice tool!
http://t.co/OsArIsqy
@ColinHarrington: Need to generate a Data changeset with the Grails database migration plugin? ‘grails dbm-generate-changelog data.groovy –diffTypes=data’