This Week in Grails (2013-08)

Miscellaneous Items

• Groovy generator proof of concept
• Little Goblin: Grails-based browser game
• Road to Grails 2.3: Forked Execution
• Email open tracking – why and how to do it
• Universal Places Serves Up Dream Vacations with the CloudBees Platform
• This Week in Spring – February 19th, 2012

Plugins

There were 5 new plugins released:

• casper-runner version 0.2. Runs functional CapserJS tests
• goblin version 0.3.2. A browser game framework
• gson version 1.0. Provides alternate JSON (de)serialization using Google’s Gson library
• simple-suggestions version 0.1. Suggestion service to provide suggestions to auto complete controls
• geasyui version 0.3. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs

and 12 updated plugins:

• aws-sdk version 1.3.32. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
• codenarc version 0.18.1. Static code analysis for Groovy
• dumbster version 0.2. Adds support for the Dumbster SMTP server for testing
• improx version 0.2. Use interactive mode from other process via TCP
• jetty version 2.0.3. Makes Jetty the development time container
• jquery-validation-ui version 1.4.1. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
• kickstart-with-bootstrap version 0.9.2. Start your project with a good looking frontend, with adapted scaffolding templates for standard CRUD pages using Twitter Bootstrap
• less-resources version 1.3.3.1. Compile .less files into .css files
• localizations version 1.4.4.9. Store i18n strings in a database
• plastic-criteria version 0.6. Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
• release version 2.2.1. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
• vaadin version 1.7.1. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration

Interesting Tweets

• @danveloper: Example of using #GDI with #Ratpack to make a really strong and simple #Groovy web service. https://t.co/Jq4gcycy
• @fogelmania: Functional Programming 101 in Groovy – Evgeny Goldin slides from his #DevconTLV talk
  @evgeny_goldin http://t.co/6vp0E88c #Groovy
• @kenkousen: Decided to put my Spock presentation from #devnexus and #nfjs on @slideshare http://t.co/LSKT2xxx #spock #groovy
• @zilet: #Grails scaffold starter project with twitter bootstrap and font awesome for your retina sweetness https://t.co/LjjOYe4j
• @Parleys: Devoxx releases “What’s new in #Groovy 2.0?” by Guillaume Laforge @ http://t.co/YPnSpBHO #SpringSource #Grails
• @finixer: http://t.co/EkqHjNiW is now using #redis on #grails 2 as a caching layer at http://t.co/oOCKHarF It’s lightning fast! #finixertechnical
• @pmcneil: Just released the #grails Simple Suggestions plugin http://t.co/Xz2DLvoTDd. Autocomplete made easy by convention.
• @grailsmx: Podcast de GrailsMX, Temporada 2 episodio 2
  http://t.co/fd3PBi5CTN
• @rstepanenko: My blog post about Open Source: http://t.co/XKsiI1nJ4n. Also check out some comments on HN: http://t.co/pB2w1529WQ #grails #opensource
• @tomaslin: Grails mailing list tells me German devs make $750 a day. Guess it is time to learn German.
• @rfletcherEW: Didn’t know about the resource style URL mappings in #grails – very neat http://t.co/tL0ImOk5CN
• @fabricematrat: Great Session of #RivieraGug and #JSSophia on HTML5 Games with #grails backend http://t.co/axVy2VoRzG @corinnekrych @mathbruyen #groovy
• @DailyGrailsTip: Using #grails at tradeshift – http://t.co/kbozJKgwJg

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

• @pughy23: Looking for 2 strong web development Java specialist with commercial experience with Groovy / Grails. If you are available contact me asap …
• @GCSdigitalmedia: Looking for Java Developers with Groovy and Grails exp… interested? Kevin on 020 7710 4141
• @DamonViers: CWT is #hiring 2 #grails developers. Let me know if you are interested.
• @smd: Any #grails devs in the Seattle area looking for work?
• Java Web Developer at Manning Books
• @patrick_fraley: We are looking for a fulltime #groovy #grails Developer in #Hamburg, #Germany. #job pm me for details.
• Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Tools at Netflix in Los Gatos, CA
• Profesionales grails para trabajar en remoto – Madrid
• Grails Developer in Montevideo
• @baderdean: Offre d’#emploi en développement Web sur le framework #Grails en langage #Groovy dérivé de Java. #DM pour contact.
• Grails/Groovy Developers Needed in Northern VA
• Grails developer in Columbus, OH
• Java / Grails Developer positions in Tampa, FL and Orlando, FL
• Grails/Mobile Developer in Warwick, Warwickshire
• Java/JEE/Grails Engineers at Oracle in Austin, TX

User groups and Conferences

• GR8Conf Europe 2013
  • May 22^nd-24^th Copenhagen, Denmark
• GR8Conf US 2013
  • July 21^st-23^rd Minneapolis, MN
• SpringOne 2GX 2013
  • September 9^th-12^th Minneapolis, MN

• Grails and Ale – March 6, 2013
  • TechLife Columbus
• March 14, 2013
  • Seattle Groovy/Grails Users Group
• Designing and Implementing a RESTful API with Grails – March 20, 2013
  • San Francisco Grails Cafe Centro