This Week in Grails (2011-26)
GR8 Conf US was this week in Minneapolis. It was a lot of fun, and another chance to meet people I’d only previously known online (both users and speakers) and talk about what’s going on in the real world. I was able to spend some time in Minneapolis (the conference was actually a little south of the city in Bloomington) and was almost starting to think that I could live in a place like Minneapolis, until I remembered what the weather is like there in January.
I thought I was breaking the news that Grails 1.4 had been renamed to 2.0 when I announced it, only to be told that Graeme had posted the news on the mailing list 27 minutes earlier 🙂
There was a lot of Twitter activity during the conference (search the #gr8conf hashtag), and here are some of the more interesting ones:
- @javazquez: gr8 is packed 😀 #gr8conf #us
- @hartsock: TIL: groovy.transform.Immutable and when I did I heard a guitar solo #gr8conf
- @hartsock: at #gr8conf a hush falls as folks digest the news of Grails 2.0
- @colinharrington: AST transformations by @aalmiray #gr8conf http://lockerz.com/s/114706497
- @hartsock: I need to steal ideas shamelessly from @aalmiray … code running in slides?!? #gr8conf
- @zachlendon: New catch phrase from #gr8conf: “Don’t tweet that”
- @jpalmer1026: My 3 take home lessons from #gr8conf. Learn Spock. Learn Gradle. Learn AST Transformations.
- @zanthrash: Slides and Cheat Sheet from @zanthrash & @ColinHarrington #Grails #testing presentation at #gr8conf http://t.co/Mrn16fI
- @zachlendon: #gr8conf brings in its closer – @tednaleid to talk about Groovy, Grails and Redis: http://slidesha.re/moIpxk
- @gr8rDC: DC Groovy is represented at #gr8conf. We are looking for speakers to present at meetings. If anyone is interested, would love to chat!
- @HamletDRC: Great feedback for #groovy CodeNarc at #gr8conf. CodeNarc is growing into something we should really be proud of.
- @javazquez: just picked up “Groovy in Action” MEAP to get more familiar with AST.. Thanks @HamletDRC for the recommendation 🙂 #gr8conf
- @deanriverson: My wife told me this morning that she’s become a #groovy convert. Mission accomplished. (with the help of #gr8conf) Muwhahahhahaha
As usual there are interesting jobs to check out, but in particular there’s one at a company here in the Boston area, and one in Hawaii(!). And I happened to check out the SpringSourceJob Twitter feed that I have permalinked below and there’s very cool position open (not Grails or Groovy related unfortunately) in Cambridge using Java, Flex, BlazeDS working with the Mobile Virtualization Platform.
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Miscellaneous Items
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Grails 1.4 is now Grails 2.0
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Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.1 Released
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Geb 0.6.0 released
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Grails 2.0
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Tools used at a Grails Startup – technologies / infrastructure used at Secret Escapes
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Countdown to Grails 2.0: Static resources
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Getting Started with Grails and MySQL
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-06-27
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-06-28
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-06-30
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http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-07-01
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Hyperic Brings Application Monitoring to Cloud Foundry
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Grails Resources and LESS
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Grails + SQLFire: Elastic Data
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This week in Spring: June 28th, 2011
Plugins
There were 2 new plugins released:
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jquery-file-upload
version 0.1. Provides common resources for http://aquantum-demo.appspot.com/file-upload and helper tags
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pusher
version 0.1. Wrapper for pusher.com REST api
and 12 updated plugins:
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avatar
version 0.5.2. Provides a taglib for displaying avatars
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batch-launcher
version 0.5.3. Load and run batch (non-webapp) Grails applications
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codenarc
version 0.14. Static code analysis for Groovy
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equals-hashcode-test
version 0.2.0. Base Spock specification for testing equals and hashCode methods of domain classes and other Groovy objects
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executor
version 0.3. Enables the Java concurrency Executor Framework for asynchronous processing
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flash-helper
version 0.8. Simplifies and standardizes the process of adding/reading messages in the flash scope
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geb
version 0.6.0. Geb is a library for headless web browsing on the JVM, suitable for automation and functional web testing
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grails-ant
version 0.1.2. Provides Ant to Grails applications
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grails-yui-widget
version 0.1.1. Create YUI Widgets via TagLibs
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i18n-fields
version 0.5.1. Provides a declarative way of localizing domain classes’ fields for different languages
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release
version 1.0.0.M3. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
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tiny-mce
version 3.4.3.1. Integrates the TinyMce editor javascript and tags to embed the editor in your GSP pages
Interesting Tweets
- @mittie: my next #grails course at @skillsmatter London will be Sep 21st
- @smaldini: Happy birth day #Grails – 6 yr old !! and a version 2 is coming 🙂
- @skillsmatter: Just scheduled: #Groovy #Grails Code Jam with @pledbrook @skillsmatter July 18. Sign up: http://t.co/wtEylNW #ggug #groovysm
- @soyangel: Dotcloud + Grails + MongoDB + Geo = http://bit.ly/kzEx6I
- @mittie: #groovy in action, 2nd ed., editor feedback: “this code too short to be a listing” LOL
- @VMwareKB: New #VMware KB: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2000583 Determining the license being used by a specific Grails plugin
- @hartsock: Based on a conversation with @burtbeckwith I sketched out this plugin http://t.co/4rvE2py
- @rfletcherEW: Our #grails & #backbonejs app in the Chrome App Store: http://t.co/LVjWAOd
- @graemerocher: Yet another new #grails startup http://t.co/43RFHyK
- @joneilloine: @graemerocher ReachLocal is also using Grails for http://t.co/8iZ2VwC
- @dvanroeyen: @graemerocher code529.com uses #grails (trial license generation)
- @graemerocher: new #grails plugin for SmartGWT by the creators of SmartClient: http://t.co/piU9gQu
- @breskeby: just published first shot of the #gradle #site plugin I’ve demoed at #gr8conf eu at http://bit.ly/jCS1DW
- @favoritemediums: Our new #grails project just went into production for #KQED in the San Francisco Bay Area!
- @aalmiray: grails run-script just saved me tons of work. that’s another beer I owe to @tednaleid 🙂
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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Website Developer – Los Altos, CA
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Jr./Mid-level Grails Developer – Greenwood Village, CO
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Java/Grails developer (Honolulu)
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Dynamic Social Impact Web Startup Looking For Grails Developer in Boston
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Java Developer – Groovy and Grails 12-month contract in London
- @molekilla: #groovy #job Looking for seasoned and experience developers with Spring Fx, Hibernate and J2EE to work in #Panama with top notch team
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Java Web Developer at Kettle River Consulting in Minneapolis, MN
User groups and Conferences
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CamelCaseCon – The Next Generation of Programming Languages
- 7. September 2011 in Düsseldorf
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SpringOne 2GX 2011
- October 25th-28th in Chicago, IL
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“The return of La Marmite – Hands-On Grails” Jeudi 7 juillet 19h30
- Duchess France
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
- Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group
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Deploying Grails Applications to Cloud Foundry – Thursday, July 14, 2011
- Boston Grails Users’ Group