Grails Diary - Week 51

22 December 2013

This week has been rather quiet, leaving room to digest the impressions from last weeks GGX. Guillaume did update the Groovy roadmap, with the plans for Groovy 2.3 and 3.0.

Remember, the call for papers are open for GR8conf (US and EU both) at http://cfp.gr8conf.org and Greach at http://greach.es/c4p.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Blogs, articles, videos etc.

• Automatically converting password hashes in Grails spring-security-core (Burt Beckwith)
• Application Architectures with Grails (Peter Ledbrook)
• Advanced Groovy Tips and Tricks (Ken Kousen)
• Creating Groovy DSLs that Developers Can Actually Use (Guillaume Laforge and Paul King)
• Searching Subversion Logs with Groovy (Dustin Marx)
• Grails Plugin: Servlet Filter to Add X-Frame-Options Response Header (MrHaki)
• Groovy Goodness: Using Package Scoped Methods, Fields and Classes (MrHaki)
• I18NENUMS - Translate your enums in Grails (Søren Glasius)
• Ratpack - Micro Web Apps for Groovy (Luke Daley)
• Sublime Simplicity of Scripting with Groovy (Dustin Marx)
• Functional Groovy (Andres Almiray)

New Plugins

• Retina Tag Plugin Adds retina resolution image tag support for asset-pipeline.
• Quick Search Plugin Search plugin for domain class properties. Lightweight plugin which puts the ability for searching, it adds utility functions for building the search result into a string format representation sufficient for auto-complete as well as functions for listing the results based on the search query.
• I18nEnums Grails Plugin Adds an annotation that will implement MessageSourceResolvable on Enums in an uniform way
• X-Frame-Options Plugin Servlet filter that adds a X-Frame-Options response header.
• Yahoo for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate Yahoo to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• Weibo for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate Weibo to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• VK for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate VK to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• Twitter for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate Twitter to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• LinkedIn for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate LinkedIn to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• Google for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate Google to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• Facebook for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate Facebook to Spring Security OAuth plugin.

Updated Plugins

• CodeNarc plugin Runs CodeNarc static analysis rules for Groovy source.
• 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.
• The Google Web Toolkit for Grails. Incorporates GWT into Grails. In particular, GWT host pages can be GSPs and standard Grails services can be used to handle client RPC requests.
• 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.
• CKeditor plugin CKeditor web WYSIWYG editor integration plugin.
• OohLaLog Plugin Grails Oohlalog Log4j Appender for Passing logs to the oohlalog API.
• Redis Flexible Cache Plugin This plugin is an alternative to redis-cache-plugin. It gives the possibility to set the expire time in seconds for every cached key, and provides a service, annotations and injected methods to perform entry caching and eviction. The redis-plugin plugin also provides the possibility to set a TTL for a cached entry (using the provided @Memoize annotation), but it lacks the option to serialize any kind of Serializable objects (only object ids are cached and then hydrated from main DB). This means ...
• Weibo for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate Weibo to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• Grails AWS Plugin Amazon Web Services (AWS) grails plugin provides easy access to simpler functions of AWS
• AngularJS Resources Plugin Angular JS resources plugin
• 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.
• 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. Using the SDK, developers can build solutions for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more.
• Spring Security OAuth plugin Adds OAuth-based authentication to the Spring Security plugin using the OAuth plugin. This plugin provides an OAuth realm that can easily be integratedinto existing applications and a host of utility functions to make things like "log in with Twitter" almost trivial.

Interesting Tweets

• @marcinerdmann @davidthecoder ratpack dude! I spent last few days migrating http://www.gebish.org/ to a ratpack app, nice and easy!
• @russel_winder  An article showing why every Java and Groovy programmer should be using Spock even if they don't want to. http://ow.ly/rYNpQ
• @CedricChampeau  Finding new generics bugs in the compiler on a Friday evening is uncool.
• @jeffscottbrown  A day will come when we will know that Windows is a terrible platform for JVM web app development, and that day is at least 6 years ago.
• @aalmiray gradle's buildDashboard plugin is a good start. sadly no options for transforming XML into HTML (yet). Possible #hackergarten task ;-)
• @CedricChampeau  You know you're writing too many AST xforms when you start writing "foo ast List" instead of "foo as List"
• @grailsframework Nice interview with @JoeSondow from @Netflix about @grailsframework and @AsgardOSS http://bitcast-a.v1.o1.sjc1.bitgravity.com/greenplum/pivotalvideo/Joe_Netflix_Grails.m4v /cc @gopivotal #grails #groovylang
• @newsycombinator  The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers http://www.aaronstannard.com/post/2013/12/19/The-Taxonomy-of-Terrible-Programmers.aspx
• @glaforge I hadn't updated the #groovylang roadmap page in a while! http://groovy.codehaus.org/Roadmap
• @alvaro_sanchez  I'm working on a #Grails plugin to have stateless, token-based RESTful authentication using #Spring Security. Stay tuned! #ggx #groovylang
• @smaldini  I finally can commit without any stress with https://github.com/noidontdig/gitdown
• @ldaley  If you're looking for Groovy/Grails/Gradle work in London in the new year, let me know. Some good sounding offers.

Conferences and meetups