Grails Diary - Week 42

The news in this week includes Groovy being ready with a release candidate for 2.2 and Grails releasing 2.3.1 with a lot of bugs fixed.

Blogs, articles etc.

New Plugins

Grails Url shortener This is a grails plugin that integrates a custom url shortener inside your Grails application.
HDIV plugin HDIV plugin
OWASP Zap Security Tests Plugin Security tests for your Grails app using OWASP ZAP proxy
Extended Dependency Manager Plugin Provides a simple API in the Grails scripting environment to resolve new libraries from the remote repositories and add them to the various classpaths

Updated Plugins

Geb integration for Grails Integrates the geb functional testing framework
Jersey Request Builder Plugin Provides the Jersey client library and a builder to simplify use of the library.
REST Client Builder Plugin Grails REST Client Builder Plugin
Hibernate 4 for Grails Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate 4 through GORM
Hibernate 3 for Grails Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate 3 through GORM
http://grails.org/plugin/scaffolding Handles the configuration of dynamic scaffolding
Github Gist Plugin Uploads code snippets from a Grails project to GitHub Gists so you can easily share tested code in blog posts, etc.
Ember.js Asset-Pipeline Plugin Provides Ember.js integration with asset-pipeline.
OohLaLog Plugin Grails Oohlalog Log4j Appender for Passing logs to the oohlalog API.
Easygrid Plugin Provides a declarative way of defining Data Grids.
CORS Plugin Installs a servlet filter to set Access-Control-Allow-Origin and other CORS related headers to enable cross site AJAX requests
Asset Pipeline Plugin The Grails `asset-pipeline` is a plugin used for managing/processing static assets.
Hibernate Application Info Hibernate Application Info
Application Info UI for inspecting various aspects of the application's configuration
Grails Apache Nutch alternative Very simple alternative to Apache Nutch created in Grails.
Extended Dependency Manager Plugin Provides a simple API in the Grails scripting environment to resolve new libraries from the remote repositories and add them to the various classpaths.

Interesting Tweets

@DailyGrailsTip Follow the Asgard Show on Youtube and see how Netflix uses Grails to deploy to AWS cloud. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAsgardShow
@danveloper Manning is hiring #Grails developers. http://www.manning.com/about/jobs.html
@PivotalOro An exclusive interview with @eWEEK, Guillaume Laforge, Groovy project manager at @GoPivotal http://www.eweek.com/developer/groovy-programming-language-sees-major-boost-in-popularity.html
@sjmaple First vJUG session scheduled! "Don't be that guy! Developer Security Awareness" by @myfear RSVP - http://www.meetup.com/virtualJUG/events/145726442/
@aalmiray there are _never_ enough tests. TDD gets you started. BDD carries you forward. Spock spices up things and keeps them interesting
@DailyGrailsTip Application architecture in Groovy from Gr8Conf US and Dan Woods - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/app-arch-groovy
@jezhiggins When you're working in Java, you can't avoid the conclusion that its designers really fucked it up from the very beginning.
@Grails48 Grails48 had 2 locations in Germany last year. Anyone in Germany interested in hosting a location for #Grails48 II? cc/ @joergrech
@DailyGrailsTip Run Groovy results as a tooltip in Text Mate - http://blog.agiledeveloper.com/2007/10/tweaking-textmate-groovy-bundle.html
@gvmtool Grails 2.3.1 is now available for download on GVM!
@CedricChampeau I will talk about 10 years of #groovylang at JavaDay, Riga. http://bit.ly/1aUBDr7 on Nov, 28th.
@igbrch #groovy/#grails pretty amazing tools!
@ Grails code from the Trenches - http://gr8conf.eu/Presentations/Trench-code http://gr8conf.eu/Presentations/Trench-code …
@brianjohnsendk There's a lot of Grails goin' on in the Danish government. Yay! #grailsframework and #groovlang FTW
@glaforge Case study on #netflix and their use of #groovylang and #grails in #asgard /cc @joesondow http://gopivotal.com/sites/default/files/Netflix_CS_Groovy_Grails_2013.pdf
@mittie Static types are like guard rails that keep you on track. Very helpful unless you aim to go cross-country.
@aalmiray attending @jazoon next week? come hear about Spock (22nd) and Groovy ASTs/Lombok (23rd) right before lunch (11:30am)

Conferences and meetups

Groovy Grails Exchange, London December 12th - 13th, 2013

Grails48, global, Feb. 28th - March 2nd , 2014

GR8conf Europe, Copenhagen, June 2nd -4th, 2014