This Week in Grails (2012-34)

Miscellaneous Items

• Groovy Testing for Agile Teams
  • Video of Paul King’s talk from OSDC 2011
• How to fix IncompatibleClassChangeError for your Groovy projects running on JDK7
• Login with Twitter
• Asynchronous Grails – Colin Harrington, hosted by @ExcellaCo and @Gr8rDC
• Authenticate a Grails app via Tomcat when using Spring-security
• Grails: named foreign keys
• This Week in Spring – August 21, 2012

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

• feature-switch version 0.2. Allows turning on and off of features
• war-exec version 1.0.1. Makes the war files generated by Grails executable (java -jar myapp.war) by embedding Jetty. Jetty can be configured using properties in Config.groovy

and 8 updated plugins:

• activiti-spring-security version 0.4.9. Integrates Spring Security to Activiti as custom IdentityService
• content-buffer version 1.0.1. Use this plugin to append page fragments to pre-defined sections in your layout template
• facebook-sdk version 0.3.5. Allows your application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect)
• gwt version 0.7.1. Incorporates GWT into Grails
• hibernate-search version 0.7. Integrates Hibernate Search for domain classes
• jquery version 1.8.0. Integrates jQuery
• spring-security-taobao version 1.0.5. Integrates the Taobao Open API Authentication with the Spring Security Core plugin
• twitter-bootstrap version 2.1.0. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files

Interesting Tweets

• @smaldini: Got #vertx +#grails + #platformCore #eventbus working fine !
• @danveloper: #Grails – hook into TestCaseStart event to see which test you’re on! http://t.co/6v4LZrf1 /ht: @pledbrook , /cc: @mittie
• @skillsmatter: FRESH! @skillsmatter presents @mittie for his free talk- #GroovyFX – a world of wonder. #groovy #grails http://t.co/DheOk79M
• @skillsmatter: REWIND: Check out @mittie talk at @skillsmatter last year on Desktop in the #Cloud #groovy #grails http://t.co/pkjFOfmL
• @pledbrook: I added the #grails user guide to global site search on the new beta website: http://t.co/tDZ2Acy0
• @DailyGrailsTip: Access fields that have been modified in a domain class within #grails via domainInstance.dirtyPropertyNames – http://t.co/b1AlcRTq
• @hansamann: #groovy was born today! Happy birthday, #groovy!

Jobs

• Dice keyword search for Grails
• Monster keyword search for Grails
• Careerbuilder keyword search for Grails
• SpringSourceJob Twitter feed
• SpringSource job search at jobs.vmware.com

• Grails (Java) Developers at SiteMinder
• Java/Grails Engineer/Architect in Denver, CO
• Java Developer in London
• Java Developer at Millennial Media in Baltimore, MD
• @chochosmx: Busco un programador que sepa Groovy y de preferencia Grails p/chamba tiempo completo, si saben de alguien que me contacte por favor.
• Grails/Java Developer in –Atlanta, GA
• Software Engineer at Bloom Health in Minneapolis, MN
• Agile Software Developer at Dominion Marine Media in Vancouver, BC
• Lead Java Developer in Maple Grove, MN
• Java Groovy Grails Developer in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Grails Developer in Provo, UT
• Grails / Java / Oracle / Web / Applications Developer in US-VA-Washington DC
• Gezocht Groovy/Grails Developer – Noord-Holland
• Groovy and Grails Developer in London
• Web Developer, Grails, Java in Downtown Toronto
• Groovy/Grails developer in Kolkata,India
• Entry to Mid-level Java Developer with Grails experience in Richmond, VA

User groups and Conferences

• SpringOne 2GX 2012
  • October 15^th-18^th, Washington, DC
• Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012
  • 13^th-14^th December, London

• Cache Plugins / Using Spring in Grails – September 6, 2012
  • Boston Grails Users’ Group
• Grails 2.x and Gr8 Expectations – September 12, 2012
  • San Francisco Grails Cafe Centro