This Week in Grails (2012-11)

Miscellaneous Items

• Groovy Sneak Peek: @NotYetImplemented
• Ten Reasons Every Java Developer Should Learn Groovy (Part 2)
• Vaadin and Grails, part I., “Hello world, with DB!”
• Presentation: Ratpack: Classy and Compact Groovy Web Apps
• Creating Google Calendar in Grails – Part 3: Creating and Modifying Events
• Using Grails with Oracle AQ as Jms provider
• Approachable Concurrency for the JVM with Groovy Parallel Systems
• Add filter pane to your scaffolding list template

Plugins

There was one new plugins released:

• jasmine version 1.1. Test Runner for Jasmine: DOM-less simple JavaScript testing framework

and 11 updated plugins:

• aws version 1.2.12.2. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• cucumber version 0.2.3. Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
• date-formatting version 0.2.6. Adds functions to the Date object to convert into various string formats
• dojo version 1.6.1.8. Integrates the Dojo javascript toolkit
• facebook-sdk version 0.2.0. Allows your application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect)
• fields version 1.1. Customizable form-field rendering based on overrideable GSP template
• jesque-web version 0.3.1. Web interface to view and manage jesque queues, jobs and workers
• qrcode version 0.2. Create QR codes
• quartz version 1.0-RC1. Schedules jobs to be executed with a specified interval or cron expression using the Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler
• twitter-bootstrap version 2.0.1.22. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
• webdriver version 0.4.1. Integrates Webdriver with Grails to allow functional testing in both HtmlUnit and real browsers

Interesting Tweets

• @graemerocher: Nice to have http://t.co/7Zlzx3jW run on tc Server, monitored by #hyperic HQ, profiled by Spring Insight Operations and hosted by #vmware
• @craigburke1: Add events on my #grails calendar http://t.co/AuZytM1H
• @rfletcherEW: I released version 1.1 of the #Grails Fields plugin. Big thanks to @bluesliverx for pull requests (with tests!) http://t.co/IWi2apog
• @glaforge: #grails developers could list some of the high-profiles web sites developed w/ Grails? http://t.co/SMxC46kd
• @sebi2706: Batir des applications web mobiles dans le Cloud avec Grails – Devoxx France 2012 -Devoxx http://t.co/g7W35D00
• @djKianoosh: Nonstop compliments from gov client/users @ the usability of a #grails & #twitterbootstrap based webapp we rolled out a couple weeks ago!
• @peterneubauer: Neo4j Grails GORM plugin 1.0.0.M02 released by @darthvader42 , demo app via #neo4jchallenge, http://t.co/ubCJIUgF #groovy
• @sebi2706: //Feed your brain
  gr8.technologies.each { yourBrain << it } #gr8conf
• @LondonGGUG: Why not come along to a free session by @ldaley on incorporating your JavaScript assets into a Gradle build? http://t.co/KBgKJqsK
• @sothmann: Scheduling via Spring’s @Scheduled annotation in #Grails – vote for it! http://t.co/wEi72jXn thx!
• @tomaslin: Grails + Heroku and Cloudflare = awesome.
• @tomaslin: There should be a site like http://t.co/uKwDEDhW to connect grails developers with clients. But I think aggressive recruiters would ruin it.
• @glaforge: Interesting… quite a bit of #groovy and #grails on #cloudbees http://t.co/hsUnTAlq
• @nagai_masato: GBench 0.3.0 released / Source code repository moved to Git http://t.co/D9GmmDpU #groovy
• @nagai_masato: GBench 0.3.0 is available on Maven Central. Try @Grab(‘com.googlecode.gbench:gbench:0.3.0-groovy-1.8’) #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

• @bcardarella: If anybody knows of a Grails developer (Groovy) in the Boston area please get in touch.
• @0xPIT: Looking to hire: One extraordinarily skilled Web Developer and one likewise Groovy/Grails hacker!
• @ysb33r: Know anyone good willing to work in #Aylesbury who has strong #jvm / #groovy / #gradle skills. Both perm + contract. Let me know.
• @it700x: Looking for a Senior Developer with Grails experience, Sydney based for one of our clients, let me know if you know anyone
• Intermediate Java and Grails Developers at Dominion Enterprises in Vancouver
• @ajmeow: We need some front end developers: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Grails, and we need a Java Swing developer. If anyone is looking, lemme know!
• @HPirie: Looking for Groovy/Grails developers to join my client in London! excellent salaries and benefits!!
• Grails / Java Develper at Carfax in Centreville, VA
• Groovy Grails Developer in Hyderabad / Secunderabad
• Analista Groovy on Grails. en Madrid
• Senior Java Developer at developerprogram.com in Austin, TX
• Java -Grails- Entwickler *Düsseldorf Inhouse*
• Desenvolvedor Java Pleno – Rio de Janeiro
• t I am looking for GRAILS Developers, any recommendation/contacts !
• Looking for Developer – Grails/Groovy/Java – Sydney CBD
• Groovy/Grails Software Engineer – Rumbo.es – Madrid y alrededores, España
• Java Web Architect at Atomic Labs – Downtown Mountain View

User groups and Conferences

• GR8Conf Europe 2012
  • June 6^th-8^th Copenhagen, Denmark
• GR8Conf US 2012
  • July 29^th-31^st Minneapolis, MN

• Grails at kaufDA, a German startup doing local search and promotion – March 20, 2012
  • San Francisco Grails Cafe Centro
• Taking advantage of change with Grails – March 22, 2012
  • London Groovy & Grails User Group
• Hack code – March 29, 2012
  • London Groovy & Grails User Group
• April 3, 2012
  • nlgug – Groovy and Grails User Group Netherlands