Grails Diary - Week 1 in 2014

05 January 2014

The comming week will feature the premiere of the very first edition of the Grails Conf India conference. Sessions are ticking in, and there are lots of interesting presentations scheduled. In other conference related news, the Greach conference have updated it's description, announcing to have all sessions in English

The Grails Diary is now available in Japanese, translation made by @tyama.

Videos of presentations

• Node.js Tools For Your Grails Toolbox (Zan Thrash, from GR8conf US)
• The Art of Builds - An In-depth Comparison of Build Tools (Hans Dockter, from SpringOne 2GX 2013)
• BDD Using Cucumber JVM and Groovy (Marco Vermeulen, from GR8conf US)
• Application Architecture in Groovy (Dan Woods, from SpringOne 2GX 2013)

Blogs, articles, etc.

• Groovy Weekly #2 (Guillaume Laforge)
• Grails: Using Hibernate Filters (Michael Scharhag)
• Groovy's Smooth Operators (Alex Staveley)

New Plugins

• Prerender Plugin Installs a servlet filter to proxy requests to prerender web service, to provider better SEO for AJAX powered websites. Learn more at http://prerender.io.

Updated Plugins

• Twitter Authentication for Spring Security Twitter authentication support for the Spring Security plugin.
• Jquery Date Time Picker Plugin Makes it easy to use jQuery date and time pickers.
• SeedMe Plugin Implements a standard convention for adding seed data to your application.
• Criteria Js Plugin GORM criteria for javascript
• OohLaLog Plugin Grails Oohlalog Log4j Appender for Passing logs to the oohlalog API.
• Grails plugin to package Coda Hale's metrics jars This plugin provides an easy way for grails apps to create application health checks and metrics (timers, meters, counters, histograms, etc) from Coda Hale's metric
• Sentry Client Plugin Sentry Client for Grails
• Vaadin 7 Plugin Grails plugin integrating Vaadin 7 into the Grails project.
• 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. The UI optionally might be bounded to GORM entities through jaces scaffolding support.
• Stripe Plugin for using Stripe to process credit card transactions.
• Simple Captcha Plugin Creates simple image CAPTCHAs that protect against automated completion and submission of HTML forms

Interesting Tweets

• @groovylang 2014 is our year. Lets all do our part to get the word out on me #groovylang. I'm too good looking to be kept a secret #tiobeTop20HereWeCome
• @gvmtool  Lazybones 0.6 is now available for download on GVM. #lazybones
• @cetnar Great presentation about Spock Framework by @kensipe https://vimeo.com/74553183 - I'm really impressed
• @danveloper Sometimes I forget how much working with dates in JDK 7 blows, then I have to do it again. Looking forward to #jdk8 dates.
• @robpatrick A little gist for adding dateCreated & lastUpdated to #grails GORM classes via an annotation & AST Transformation: https://gist.github.com/robpatrick/7289943
• @ratpackweb Ratpack 0.9.0 released! » http://www.ratpack.io/versions/0.9.0/
• @groovylang Have a Groovy New Year. Thanks to all who made 2013 such a great year.
• @alvaro_sanchez My New Year's gift to the #groovylang community: Spring Security REST for #Grails: http://ow.ly/saDij (note: still unreleased)

Conferences and meetups