Grails Diary - Week 43

27 October 2013

The release candidate for Gradle 1.9 is available now. The program for the Groovy Grails eXchange is taking shape, and it is already looking exiting

Blogs, articles etc.

• Grails – Adding MySQL Collation Support to GORM
• Groovy Quick Tip – The groovy.util.logging Package
• Orchestrating Tasks from the Cloud with Groovy and AWS SWF
• Using the Groovy Console as a Java Production Support Tool
• Netflix, Amazon, Asgard, Groovy, & Grails: Elastically Scaling Apps for 40+ Million Internet TV Viewers
• New Programming Jargon
• Asgard, the Grails App that Deploys Netflix to the Cloud

New Plugins

• D3 resources Provides resource files for the D3.js JavaScript library.
• SeedMe Plugin Implements a standard convention for adding seed data to your application.
• Hystrix Circuit Breaker Plugin Hystrix is awesome, this is an attempt to make it easy to use for a Grails application
• OpenCMIS SDK Plugin The OpenCMIS plugin allows your grails application to use open binding services with content repositories like Apache InMemoryRepository and Alfresco Cloud network.

Updated Plugins

• Atmosphere Meteor Plugin This plugin incorporates the Atmosphere Framework, which includes client and server-side components for building asynchronous web applications.
• AWS SDK Plugin The AWS SDK Plugin allows your Grails application to use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services. It provides simple wrapper service around the official AWS SDK for Java.
• Jersey Request Builder Plugin Provides the Jersey client library and a builder to simplify use of the library.
• Spring Mobile Grails plugin Device resolver based on the Spring Mobile Library
• Clover Code Coverage for Grails 2.x A plugin that integrates Clover into GRAILS 2.x projects. Clover is a Code Coverage tool that produces beautiful reports which are highly configurable and extensible.
• Spring Security Kerberos Plugin Spring Security Kerberos plugin
• Plastic Criteria Plugin Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
• Searchable Plugin Adds rich search functionality to Grails domain models. Built on Compass (http://www.compass-project.org/) and Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org/)
• Excel Export Plugin This plugin helps you export data in Excel (xlsx) format, using Apache POI.
• Grails REST Plugin Adds REST client capabilities to your Grails application.
• Cookie Plugin Makes dealing with cookies easy. Provides an injectable service and expands request with methods to easily get, set, and delete cookies with one line

Interesting Tweets

• @burtbeckwith  You can ask #heroku #grails questions in their Java category: https://discussion.heroku.com/category/java
• @pniederw  Myth buster: Spock didn't get power asserts from Groovy, it was the other way around. Plus Spock's asserts have many additional features.
• @burtbeckwith  This was a lot harder to figure out than it should have been http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19592838/how-to-detect-which-view-file-has-been-rendered-in-grails #grails
• @asteingr Java developers love writing non-Java, for example: @groovylang - http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/really-java-developers-love-writing-non-java-228905
• @DailyGrailsTip  Groovy for java developers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRlc_vjiqE
• @ldaley  How is it that the Spock testing framework can make everything else seem like far too much work?
• @CedricChampeau Dear #scalaio attendees. @glaforge will attend and talk there. Please do not kidnap him, we still need him :)
• @DailyGrailsTip  A groovy kind of java - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY4S0l4yCPg
• @DailyGrailsTip  Advanced Geb Video with Marcin Erdmann - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/advanced-geb
• @smd  I don't always copy code from Stacked Overflow, but when I do I write unit tests for it.
• @alvaro_sanchez The slides of my talk "Developing SPI applications with @grailsframework and @angularjs" http://ow.ly/q1WUT #codemotion #es
• @ldaley This time next week we'll be on the home stretch of the first ever Gradle Exchange in London at @skillsmatter - http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/gradle-exchange-2013
• @DailyGrailsTip  Breaking Open Gradle - why Hans Dockter built Gradle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXoIzzcJr80
• @CedricChampeau  Would be nice if #spockframework and #geb had logos. Much nicer when you want to mention them in talks :)
• @gopivotal  Jobs, jobs, jobs. The best ones are at #GoPivotal. Check out where we are hiring: t
• @burtbeckwith  An academic paper about the ideas I talked about in my GORM performance talk ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/GORM-Performance ) : https://fedcsis.org/proceedings/2013/pliks/322.pdf #grails
• @DailyGrailsTip  Building a Groovy DSL with user interaction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T7pTvpA8qw
•  @CedricChampeau  I will talk about 10 years of #groovylang at JavaDay, Riga. http://bit.ly/1aUBDr7 on Nov, 28th.
• @gvmtool Grails 2.3.1 is now available for download on GVM!

Conferences and meetups