This Week in Grails (2011-43)
Monday, October 31st, 2011The 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?
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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
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Groovy Goodness: Customize Groovy Console Visual Output
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Invoking Groovy Script Directly on Vim using quickrun.vim and GroovyServ
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Six ways to become a better Grails programmer
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Grails Goodness: Use a Different jQuery UI Theme with Resources Plugin
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Simplified Use of Locks in Groovy
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Why isn’t Groovy/Grails more widespread among Java developers?
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Creating mobile web applications with jQuery mobile and Grails
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Sizing up the business perspective on Groovy, Scala, and other JVM languages
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Gradle & Liquibase
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Cloud Foundry previews new features at SpringOne 2GX
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-10-24
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-10-25
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-10-26
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-10-27
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-10-28
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This Week in Spring, October 25th 2011
Plugins
There were 2 new plugins released:
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jsbuild
version 1.3.1.8. Implements www.devunited.org JsBuild utility in grails with added features
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oauth-scribe
version 1.0. Provides oAuth integration for Grails, using the Scribe framework
and 18 updated plugins:
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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
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elasticsearch
version 0.17.8.1. Adds support for the http://www.elasticsearch.com/ RESTful search engine
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extjs
version 3.4.0.0. Provides Ext JS resources
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extjs4
version 4.0.7.0. Provides Ext JS 4 resources
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gdsflex
version 0.9.0. Provides integration between Grails and Adobe Flex using Granite Data Services
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geb
version 0.6.1. Geb is a library for headless web browsing on the JVM, suitable for automation and functional web testing
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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
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portlets
version 0.9.1. Aims to provide a simple way of developing JSR-168 portlets
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recurly
version 0.99. Communicate with Recurly servers
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rest
version 0.7. Enables the usage of HTTPBuilder
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rich-domain
version 1.0.4. Provides dependency injection for POGOs that are not Grails domain classes
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ruby
version 1.0.M3. Use Ruby code in Grails via JRuby
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spring-security-facebook
version 0.2.4. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
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spring-security-saml
version 1.0.0.M4. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
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twitter-bootstrap
version 1.3.0.11. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
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webdriver
version 0.3.3. Integrates Webdriver with Grails to allow functional testing in both HtmlUnit and real browsers
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xwiki-rendering
version 0.2. Convert texts using XWiki Rendering Framework
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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!
- @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
Jobs
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Dice keyword search for Grails
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Monster keyword search for Grails
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Careerbuilder keyword search for Grails
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SpringSourceJob Twitter feed
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SpringSource job search at jobs.vmware.com
- @rajivnarula: We are looking to hire a full-time #Grails #Groovy developer. Billerica MA.Please RT or contact me for details.
- @sebi2706: If you are a good software engineer who wants to work on the french riviera #groovy #sex #and #sun contact me, we need people
- @xfpx: I’m looking for a #Groovy #Grails rockstar to join an exciting cutting-edge startup. Office home-based. #Job
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Cloud Architect – Spring, Grails or Rails in Alpharetta, GA
- @schmuhl: We’re hiring at Adaptive Computing – HTML/CSS and Grails guys. Let me know if you are interested! http://t.co/FuaOGta0
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Lead Solution Developer at Chelab Laboratories in Venice, Italy
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Groovy & Grails Developer – Groningen, Netherlands
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Grails Developer in London
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Senior Grails Developer in Germany
- @exensio: Wir suchen IT Berater (w/m) mit hohem *PZU-Faktor http://t.co/d9gHnVvZ #ka #karlsruhe #grails #java #job
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Java & Grails developer – Berlin
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Java Developer with Grails experience or a desire to work with Groovy – New York City and San Francisco
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Java/J2EE Developer with Groovy/Grails in Cambridge, MA
- @MisterUnsy: Looking for free-thinking Web developers in Kent with Ruby/PHP/Grails/Mobile skills. Pathfinders, groundbreakers and adventurers welcome…
- @xfpx: I’m looking for a #Groovy #Grails rockstar to join an exciting cutting-edge startup. Office home-based. #Job
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Senior Grails Developer in Cupertino, CA
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Java Development Leader – Argentina, CABA, Villa Urquiza
User groups and Conferences
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Greach
- 4 de Noviembre de 2011 en Madrid
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GR8Conf Australia
- 15th November 2011 in Canberra, Australia
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Groovy & Grails eXchange
- December 8th and 9th in London
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Monday, October 24, 2011
- SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group
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Group Session Oktober 2011 – Donnerstag 27.10.2011
- Grails Group Switzerland
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Thursday, November 10
- The Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group