Archive for October 31st, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-43)

Monday, October 31st, 2011

The big news this week was SpringOne 2GX in Chicago. It’s always a fun conference and a great chance to learn a lot about what’s going on with the Spring and Groovy-ecosystem technologies and talk to developers creating the software that we use (or wish we were using) and the developers using these cool technologies in their jobs. I’ll be doing a separate post on this year’s conference that’ll include the slides and demo apps from my talks.

We were able to announce and demo the new Heroku plugin that we’ve been developing in collaboration with the folks at Heroku. Tomás Lin and Graeme were able to get Grails apps deployed when Heroku first announced support for Java but the process wasn’t very simple and involved Maven. The new plugin works a lot like the Cloud Foundry plugin in that it automatically reconfigures your DataSource, Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and even Memcached connection settings to use configured Heroku services, all with almost zero configuration in your application. We should have a proper release within the next couple of weeks – there are a just few more issues to iron out first.

Jochen “blackdrag” Theodorou doesn’t blog much but when he does it’s always a must-read, and this week there are two posts at his blog. Check out Feeling Grumpy? and Flow Sensitive Typing?.

Please take a moment to take this survey: Java Developers Survey of JVM Languages

Peter Ledbrook will be doing a webinar this week on new features in Grails 2.0: Webinar: Better productivity: Grails 2

We also crossed over the 700 plugin count this week – there are now 701 registered Grails plugins.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

jsbuild version 1.3.1.8. Implements www.devunited.org JsBuild utility in grails with added features
oauth-scribe version 1.0. Provides oAuth integration for Grails, using the Scribe framework

and 18 updated plugins:

compass-sass version 0.5.5. Compass, SASS and SCSS support for Grails. Automatically compiles .scss/.sass during run-app, and adds other framework functionality
elasticsearch version 0.17.8.1. Adds support for the http://www.elasticsearch.com/ RESTful search engine
extjs version 3.4.0.0. Provides Ext JS resources
extjs4 version 4.0.7.0. Provides Ext JS 4 resources
gdsflex version 0.9.0. Provides integration between Grails and Adobe Flex using Granite Data Services
geb version 0.6.1. Geb is a library for headless web browsing on the JVM, suitable for automation and functional web testing
gsp-resources version 0.2.1. Use the resources plugin to include static files like main.css.gsp, so dynamically built CSS and JS can be served as proper files instead of inlined in a non-cacheable GSP file
portlets version 0.9.1. Aims to provide a simple way of developing JSR-168 portlets
recurly version 0.99. Communicate with Recurly servers
rest version 0.7. Enables the usage of HTTPBuilder
rich-domain version 1.0.4. Provides dependency injection for POGOs that are not Grails domain classes
ruby version 1.0.M3. Use Ruby code in Grails via JRuby
spring-security-facebook version 0.2.4. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
spring-security-saml version 1.0.0.M4. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
twitter-bootstrap version 1.3.0.11. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
webdriver version 0.3.3. Integrates Webdriver with Grails to allow functional testing in both HtmlUnit and real browsers
xwiki-rendering version 0.2. Convert texts using XWiki Rendering Framework
zkui version 0.4. Seamlessly integrates ZK with Grails’ infrastructures; uses the Grails’ infrastructures such as GSP, controllers rather than zk’s zul as in ZKGrails plugin

Interesting Tweets

@ldaley: Just in time for #s2gx, Geb 0.6.1 is now available — http://t.co/yW32PHYG
@nagai_masato: Oh, I never noticed that GroovyServ is included in Windows-installer of #groovy because I never used the installer.
@mittie: a @Canoo teammate about some #groovy code I presented this morning: “it’s hard to distinguish this from a comment” 😉
@hwstrbk: Preparing my talk on Real-world #Grails that I will do on Nov 3rd @ Dutchworks (formerly Jteam). Free registration: http://t.co/ZH0ykx01
@rossobarricato: Uh… new #LSE website section is powered by #grails http://t.co/oJLwYuAE
@seb_grant: I should note that the #Nokia #Lumia global Facebook campaign is served by our #Grails based social media marketing platform #GrailsRocks
@ColinHarrington: Good documentation updates on testing for Grails 2.0 (RC1) http://t.co/t3jaLg5S #s12gx
@aalmiray: AST transformations find their way into @graemerocher‘s Grails 2.0 talk. Mad props to @smaldini for all his hard work in this area #s12gx
@daveklein: Grails 2.0 – This changes everything … Again!

#SpringOneGroovyGrailsExperienceConference2011Impl #s12gx
@csantoroTechie: Waiting for the #grails plugin for #heroku, announced here at #SpringOne #s12gx
@ColinHarrington: Grails Testing Cheat sheet http://t.co/qaQS6ZJB #s12gx
@divideby0: Grails testing cheat sheet http://t.co/mIgXDYkB #s2gx #s12gx @ColinHarrington
@mittie: some conferences leave you exhausted others inspired. #s12gx does both