This Week in Grails (2012-43)

The Grails48 hackathon is coming up soon, Nov 9-11th, 2012. Follow @grails48 for more info. All of the cool kids will be there – will you?

The call for papers open for Greach 2.0 (Jan 25/26 2013, Madrid Spain) is open

I wrote a blog post this week: Autodiscovery of JPA-annotated domain classes in Grails

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were no new plugins released but 8 updated plugins:

bootstrap-crumbs version 1.0.1. Provide simple breadcrumb functionality using the twitter bootstrap library
burning-image version 0.5.1. Easily attach images to any domain class via an annotation. You can also configure the plugin to scale images and perform other operation
cxf version 1.0.6. Expose Grails services as SOAP web services via CXF
cxf-client version 1.4.7. Use existing (or new) Apache CXF wsdl2java generated content to invoke SOAP services
kickstart-with-bootstrap version 0.8.3. Start your project with a good looking frontend, with adapted scaffolding templates for standard CRUD pages using Twitter Bootstrap
oauth version 2.1.0. Provides easy interaction with OAuth service providers
spring-security-taobao version 1.0.12. Integrates the Taobao Open API Authentication with the Spring Security Core plugin
vaadin version 1.7.0-beta5.2. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration

Interesting Tweets

@darthvader42: slides for my #s2gx talk available on http://t.co/sSxETE5L, demo app on https://t.co/VcZd5KUc
@mittie: This fall, I do more entry-level #groovy and #grails training than ever before
@FindGrailsJobs: new Grails Jobs board (http://t.co/JWD5cfmd). Post jobs for free: http://t.co/dAimNmJc
@graemerocher: Slides from my #grails update talk https://t.co/vMH0JFZO and GORM internals https://t.co/LjhgBxrb #springone2gx #s2gx
@glaforge: Recap of my #groovy and #dsl slides from #springone2gx last week http://t.co/7KxF9w1G
@sjurgemeyer: Just submitted patch GrailsMock.demandExplicit throw an Exception if mocked method doesn’t exist http://t.co/b3vNK836 #grails #testing
@pledbrook: GORM Gotchas Part 1 gets translated into Spanish: http://t.co/6wBQBJMY #Grails
@grailsframework: If the repository goes down or you have no internet connection, you can always use ‘grails –offline …’ with #Grails 2.0+
@ldaley: Slides and code from “Productive Grails Functional Testing” given at SpringOne 2012 available here » https://t.co/8DiazrEU
@dexterous: Source and build for a set of @grailsframework #HOWTO documents /via @GitHub http://t.co/bwe4T4Iu
@bksaville: Uploaded slides for #s2gx presentation: Building an Integration Platform with Gradle/Gradle http://t.co/wtcjCA9j
@httpbuilder: Happy to announce @jgritman is now taking over ownership of the #HTTPBuilder project from @thom_nic. Thanks Jason! #groovy
@SpringSourceU: Win a Groovy & Grails Training Seat http://t.co/3n37DSBD
@jeffscottbrown: Install Gent:
curl -Ls http://t.co/L8jfv72l | sh

Use Gent:
gent –name=myproj genttool/grails && cd myproj && ./grailsw run-app
@jeffscottbrown: More info on previous tweet… https://t.co/A9AAmZX6 #grails #groovy #gent
@osoco: Working with Grails and Git and doing a lot of testing? Checkout our testbox VM http://t.co/ZYOxslaH (@mgryszko)
@DailyGrailsTip: Learn more about Asynchronous #grails applications by watching this presentation by Colin Harrington – http://t.co/NwKEWYIp
@osoco: Built another Grails website for a startup at OSOCO: http://t.co/dMQ08O2l #grails (@rafael_luque)

Jobs

@JoshuaShepherd: Java Dev in DC Area. #Java, #XML, #HTML, #Spring, #Hibernate, #Subversion….#Ruby, #Groovy a plus – email jshepherd@verus.com
Senior Software Craftsman with Java/Grails in Ann Arbor, MI
@mattchallis: Looking for a #freelance #Grails #developer to start ASAP – matthew@cogsagency.com #digitaljobs #contracts #Java
Java Developer in NYC
Java Groovy/Grails Developer in London
Software Engineer – Groovy/Grails in Lexington, MA
Java Groovy Grails Developer in Johannesburg, South Africa
Groovy with JAVA IT-Professionals in Hyderabad
Grails Developer in Gibraltar
Freelance Grails Developer in London
Java / Groovy Developer in NYC
Grails Developers in the Philippines
Grails Developer in Miami

User groups and Conferences

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012
- 13^th-14^th December, London
Greach 2013
- January 25^th-26^th, Madrid

November 8, 2012
- Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group

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3 Responses to “This Week in Grails (2012-43)”

This Week in Grails (2012-43) - Grails Info says:

October 30, 2012 at 1:23 am

[…] Miscellaneous Items Plugins Interesting Tweets Jobs User groups and […]
Marius Zaharie says:

November 12, 2012 at 9:21 am

My question is: In what language is Grails written? I didn’t found that today 😉 Please mail me, a link or an answer! Thanks!
- Burt says:
  
  November 12, 2012 at 9:40 am
  
  It’s written in Java and Groovy – the source is available at https://github.com/grails/grails-core/