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This Week in Grails (2012-39)

Posted by: Burt Beckwith on 2012-10-03 08:50:00.0

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

akka version 0.5. Akka actors integration from Groovy and Java, in a Servlet 3.x environment
cors version 1.0.0. Installs a servlet filter to set Access-Control-Allow-Origin and other CORS related headers to enable cross site AJAX requests to your Grails application
mandrill version 0.1. A simple wrapper for the Mandrill REST API – http://www.mandrillapp.com

and 16 updated plugins:

airbrake version 0.7.2. Notifier plugin for integrating apps with Airbrake
aws-sdk version 1.3.21.1. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
build-info-tag version 0.2. Puts a build.info file in the generated WAR file and provides a GSP tag to display the information in it
dustjs-resources version 0.9. Supports server-side compilation of .dust template files to their .js counterparts
errors version 0.8. Sets up some basic error handling for your application
events-push version 1.0.M3. A client-side event bus based on the portable push library Atmosphere that propagates events from the server-side event bus to the browser
events-si version 1.0.M3. Standard Events system for Grails implementation; it is a Spring Integration implementation and uses its artefacts to map listeners, senders and events messages
facebook-sdk version 0.4.1. Allows your application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect)
faker version 0.7. A port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.
federated-grails version 0.3.1. Uses Shiro and Shibboleth to integrate into federated authentication
jxl version 0.54. Export data to Excel using the JXL library
portlets-gatein version 0.3. Provides a simple way of deploying Grails portlets to JBoss GateIN 3.1 Portal
remote-pagination version 0.3.1. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
underscore version 1.4.0. Simple plugin wrapper for useful Underscore.js library
yammer-metrics version 2.1.2-3. Packages Coda Hale’s yammer metrics jars
zipped-resources version 1.0.1. Integrates with Grails’ resources framework to automatically gzip static files

Interesting Tweets

@DailyGrailsTip: #Grails create-multi-project-build will create a maven project with many plugins and apps – http://t.co/SKSnc4WO
@pledbrook: Don’t break existing URLs if you don’t have to: https://t.co/V56LNEJD (mapping + controller action) #grails
@HerokuChangelog: Grails 2.1.1 Support http://t.co/pidIX0Hc
@skillsmatter: Last night @skillsmatter hosted Dierk Koenig @mittie on #groovyFX #groovy #grails. Check out the vid here http://t.co/d77hwDfi
@pledbrook: New #grails site is approaching readiness. Feedback still welcome: http://t.co/eQUwZHbe
@DailyGrailsTip: The isAvailable and isNotAvailable tags enable you to render content based on whether a plugin is installed or not in #grails
@rfletcherEW: \o/ my “Grails for hipsters” talk has been accepted for #ggx! Will be having fun integrating #Grails with @angularjs, #vertx, etc.
@winkler1: By my count, #groovy now has 6 ways to do Strings: ‘foo’, “foo”, ”’foo”’, “”"foo”"”, /foo/ and now $/foo/$. Nutty. Most devs know 1 or 2.
@DailyGrailsTip: Did you know you could use preconditions in #grails database migration changesets? http://t.co/JsudCKKL
@johnnywey: Recruiter: “Groovy on Grails” Me: “Delete”
@zanthrash: Recruiters: You tell me you have an exciting “Groovy on Grails” gig. All I hear is “I don’t really know what I’m doing”. #tryagain
@rfletcherEW: I won’t be sticking with #zsh long if I can’t figure out how to stop it asking me “correct ‘grails’ to ‘rails’ [nyae]?” ¬_¬
@rfletcherEW: Updated #Grails #AngularJS demo with Angular 1.0.2, Bootstrap 2.1.1, Grails 2.1.1 & fixes contributed by @graemerocher http://t.co/AVat6LYD
@jameskbride: Making a RESTful call in #Grails to retrieve a file? Here’s a quick example with the #rest plugin: https://t.co/KzrpFbkI
@glaforge: The #windows installer for #groovy 2.0.4 is now available! http://t.co/nOgxXl6G
@gr8conf: The #gr8conf crew is meeting today for the 2013 kickoff.. Exciting stuff!
@Grails48: In just over a week we have 50+ folks signed up for the #Grails48 hackathon. http://t.co/4HuZtMcW #grails #groovy http://t.co/4LnifTii
@DailyGrailsTip: #Grails 48 hour hackathon scheduled for Nov. 8 to 11th – are you in? http://t.co/GtN2qJJJ
@DailyGrailsTip: In #Grails 2.2, domain classes are now appended with plugin name. You can control this via the grails.gorm.table.prefix.enabled config value

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

SpringOne 2GX 2012
- October 15^th-18^th, Washington, DC
Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012
- 13^th-14^th December, London
Greach 2013
- January 25^th-26^th, Madrid

Groovy DSL & Testing with Spock – October 10, 2012
- Groovy & Grails Israel Meetup Group
November 8, 2012
- Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group

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About Burt Beckwith

Burt Beckwith is a Java and Groovy developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past three years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's created over fifteen Grails plugins and made significant contributions to several others. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action.

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