Grails Diary - Week 49

08 December 2013

The Grails team is again working high speed, and have released version 2.3.4 ( release notes ), fixing 35 bugs.

The JavaOne rock stars for 2013 have been announced . Big congratulations to everyone, noting that the GR8 community is well represented.

This is the last Grails Diary before the Groovy Grails Exchange in London. I'm looking forward to it! See you at GGX.

Blogs, articles, videos etc.

• Using MongoDB With Version 2.x of the Grails Spring Security Core Plugin (Burt Beckwith)
• Metaprogramming With The Groovy Compiler - Part 2/2 (Jeff Scott Brown)
• Troubleshooting Live Java Web Applications (Ashley Puls)
• Liftoff with Groovy 2 (Guillaume Laforge)
• Productive Programming in Groovy (Sg Ganesh)

New Plugins

• Wro4j Grails Plugin Web Resource Optimizer for Grails

Updated Plugins

• jaces - ultimate companion to create rich client forms, lists, grids. jaces is a extension to dijit for writing less and simplier code for form handling, listing items, adding records and updating them.
• OAuth2 Provider support for the Spring Security plugin. OAuth2 Provider support for the Spring Security plugin.
• Localizations (messages) plugin This plugin will pull i18n definitions from the database rather than from the standard properties files in the i18
• Facebook SDK Plugin The Facebook SDK Plugin allows your Grails application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect). It is a port of the official Facebook PHP SDK V3.1.1 to Grails 2.0.
• Plugin Bootstrap CSS framework resource files Provides Bootstrap CSS framework resource files.Bootstrap is a toolkit for kickstarting CSS for websites, apps, and more. It includes base CSS styles for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, alerts, and more.To get started with Bootstrap checkout the Bootstrap Documentation!
• Ember.js Asset-Pipeline Plugin Provides Ember.js integration with asset-pipeline. Allows for handlebars precompilation as well as scaffolding for building an emberjs application.
• Vaadin 7 Plugin Grails plugin integrating Vaadin 7 into the Grails project.
• Grails AWS Plugin Amazon Web Services (AWS) grails plugin provides easy access to simpler functions of AWS
• Bootstrap Crumbs Plugin Provide simple breadcrumb functionality using the twitter bootstrap library
• Grails FilterPane Plugin This plugin adds automatic and customizable filtering capabilities to any Grails application's list views.
• ReCaptcha and Mailhide support for Grails. ReCaptcha is a CAPTCHA implementation that has a goal of better digitizing books by having users identify words that traditional OCR systems have missed.This plugin uses the ReCaptcha Java library available from http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/.Versions 0.5 and below of this plugin will not work. ReCaptcha has changed the URL used for secure connections.
• Asset Pipeline Plugin The Asset-Pipeline is a plugin used for managing and processing static assets in Grails applications. Asset-Pipeline functions include processing and minification of both CSS and JavaScript files. It is also capable of being extended to compile custom static assets, such as CoffeeScript.
• Hibernate 3 for Grails Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate 3 through GORM
• Smartionary Plugin Facilitates externalizing a Map into a Domain, so that an app can support both programmatic and administrative modification of variable data.
• Stripe Plugin for using Stripe to process credit card transactions.
• A HTML5 drag and drop multi-file upload plugin A HTML5 drag and drop multi-file upload plugin
• Cassandra Object Persistence Framework Provides GORM-like dynamic methods for persisting Groovy objects into Cassandra (but does not implement the GORM API). It also adds a number of dynamic methods and arguments specific to typical Cassandra usage, like the ability to specify consistency level and manipulate counters. Must me used in concert with the cassandra-astyanax plugin.
• Astyanax Cassandra Client This plugin exposes the Astyanax Cassandra client as a Grails service and adds dynamic methods to make using it from Groovy more convenient. It also implements the interface defined by the cassandra-orm plugin that provides GORM-like dynamic methods for storing Groovy objects and relationships in Cassandra. Note that this plugin does not implement the GORM API.
• Grails Apache Nutch alternative Very simple alternative to Apache Nutch created i
• Quartz Monitor Grails Plugin One clear and concise page that enables you to administer all your Quartz jobs

Interesting Tweets

• @keithdoughty Save the date for @groovyio's global grails/groovy g48 hackathon, @RyanVanderwerf is forming a team in Austin, Texas! http://bit.ly/1daZ010
• @groovyio  Hackday @groovyio today. We're up early out west working on a #groovylang community job board.
• @ldaley  After 13.5 hours of presenting at #nfjs the last three days I'm unsure what to do with myself today. Something without slides perhaps.
• @CedricChampeau Project NEE: a cloud-based online learning environment that uses #groovylang, #grails and #rabbitmq http://bit.ly/18IMk4f
• @CedricChampeau  Think I'm done with code for #ggx next week. I still need some slides, but the most important stuff is ready!
• @terrencebarr  All recorded #JavaOne 2013 sessions now available on http://Parleys.com : http://www.oracle.com/javaone/sessions/index.html #java
• @kenkousen Watching @ldaley talk about #gradle is dazzling. Feel like a humble padawan in the presence of a master #rwx2013
• @mittie great “@johanneslink: Rich Hickey in http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Composition-Performance : "Does pairing just buy us time for design b/c otherwise we don't get it?"”
• @gopivotal 21 reasons top agile shops like @PivotalLabs always get the best talent | http://ow.ly/ru7pg #developers #agile #java
• @darthvader42  sent my first contribution to #groovy http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY-6470 https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/pull/295
• @brippe Thanks @groovylang for making my unit testing just that much more #GROOVY! #unittestingjavawithGROOVY #junit
• @grailsframework Ready for Grails Exchange London 2013 at @skillsmatter - Grails 2.3.4 has been released! http://grails.org/news/1288936 #grails #groovylang
• @steveonjava Congrats to the 2013 JavaOne Rock Stars! http://wp.me/pKWAB-VJ
• @smaldini I will be speaking at the Groovy Grails exchange next week in London about @ProjectReactor and its current backlog for 1.1
• @tomaslin  I will be speaking at the Grails Exchange next week in London if anyone wants to catch up or talk about working at Netflix. #ggx
• @gregopet Fixed a problem with #grails REST controllers and #AngularJS $resource service: http://gregopet.blogspot.com/2013/12/grails-23-rest-improvements-and.html (thanks for help @grailsframework !)
• @ilopmar Slides of my talk "how to get a #grails plugin approved in two hours... without a @burtbeckwith's fork" (In Spanish) http://www.slideshare.net/ilopmar/cmo-hacer-que-te-aprueben-un-plugin-de-grails-en-dos-horas-y-sin-fork-de-burt-beckwith
• @HelloAppsdeck  When we say we are the european Heroku we really mean it: Grails, Clojure, Haskell and Erlang now works. Want beta access? hello@appsdeck.eu
• @glaforge  Good read and synthesis: "Should Swing be killed to force JavaFX usage?" https://weblogs.java.net/blog/seanmiphillips/archive/2013/12/02/should-swing-be-killed-force-javafx-usage
• @tombujok  Everybody may claim the title of a software geek - but only REAL geeks attend hackergarten :)
• @mittie  valid points to learn for every language, DSL, and library designer http://overwatering.org/blog/2013/12/scala-1-star-would-not-program-again/
• @rfletcherEW  I think the thing I hate most about the JVM is the plethora of logging frameworks and the fact the one in the standard library is the worst

Conferences and meetups