Grails Diary - Week 52

30 December 2013

The two biggest news this week are the premier of the 'Groovy Weekly' newsletter and the announcement of a new Grails related conference in India.

Guilaume Laforge is the author behind the Groovy Weekly, including all kinds of great news from the entire Groovy ecosystem. The Grails Diary will continue, with the promary focus on Grails and the plugin ecosystem, sporadically including other GR8 stuff.

Intelligrape Software is backing the new Grails conf/Grails India Conference. The call for speakers is open.

Thanks to feedback from Tomás Lin, the conference section of the Grails Diary is now updated with links and deadlines for call for papers. Comments, suggestions etc is always welcome at grails@grydeske.dk

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Blogs, articles, videos etc.

• Grails Transactions (Burt Beckwith)
• Leveraging Groovy for Capturing Business Rules (Paul King)
• Groovy & Grails Exchange Wrapdown (Dan Woods)
• Gradle Command-Line Conveniences (Dustin Marx)

New Plugins

No new plugins this week.

Updated Plugins

• Cucumber Plugin Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
• ZK plugin for Grails Originated from Flyisland's ZK Plugin,ZKGrails adds and enhances the ZK's RIA capabilitiesand seamlessly integrates them with Grails' infrastructures.
• Grails Apache Nutch alternative Very simple alternative to Apache Nutch created in Grails. Crawled data could be stored to files, saved to database or sent to Apache Solr server for indexing.
• Scala Plugin Compiles Scala sources located under src/scala and src/java before grails kicks in with the grails compilation
• Modernizr for Grails Provides the JavaScript library Modernizr. Modernizr helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites. It integrates nicely with the resources plugin.

Interesting Tweets

• @davidthecoder  Beautifully, #spockframework has some of the best tests I've seen in a long time. Want to know how to use Spock? -http://bit.ly/1h4RR7W
• @danveloper I'm learning so much from working on @ratpackweb. Today, @ldaley taught me how to identify blocking ops in the JDK API. #opensourcewin
• @RyanVanderwerf oh this does look interesting. Lightweight and thin seems to be in, Spring Boot, Ratpack, and so forth http://sysgears.com/grain/
• @jeremyckahn  If you use an open source project, _let the authors_ know. Progress is limited by a developer's interest in working on it.
• @joelgrus  Why [Programming Language X] Is Unambiguously Better than [Programming Language Y] http://joelgrus.com/2013/12/24/why-programming-language-x-is-unambiguously-better-than-programming-language-y/
• @aalmiray @gvmtool may warrant inclusion? http://sysgears.com/grain/
• @ldaley After many years of trying, I still have no idea how to deal with checked exceptions when designing a library API.
• @_nailan #gradle is the most powerfull build management system I've ever used
• @CedricChampeau Looks like I can't fix a generics issue without breaking tens of unit tests
• @ldaley  All I want for christmas is better bug reports.
• @ratpackweb The Geb project's website (http://gebish.org ) is now a Ratpack app running on @heroku. See the code here » https://github.com/geb/geb/blob/master/doc/site/site.gradle
• @rfletcherEW  Don’t know if I’m late to the party here but JDBI seems to be pretty damn awesome. http://jdbi.org/

Conferences and meetups