Grails Diary - Week 5 in 2014

02 February 2014

The releases from this week is the Grails-Gradle plugin is released in version 2.0.0 and the Ratpack framework just released version 0.9.1

Søren Glasius suggest using the #grailsfw hashtag for twitter, to avoid to many hits on shoes. Graeme suggest the shoe community could just use #shoes or #sneakers, but it might not be possible ;)

Videos of presentations

Blogs, articles, etc.

New Plugins

  • Markdown Blog Plugin Add a simple blog and content editor to your Grails app, powered by Markdown.
  • Api Toolkit The Grails API Toolkit is a set of tools that automate alot of the tasks needed to build your API by combining the functionality of REST, RPC and HATEOAS. Some included functionality includes api docs, real time notifications / webhooks, generated headers, responsive content type and more.
  • Sanity Checker Plugin Utility for performing various Sanity Checks on arbitrary object data, providing a uniform set of responses for check failures.

Updated Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Conferences and meetups

G48, global, Feb. 28th - March 2nd , 2014
Greach, Madrid - Spain, March 28th -29th, 2014.
GR8conf Europe, Copenhagen - Denmark, June 2nd -4th, 2014.
SOTR - Scotch on the Rocks, Edinburg, June 5th - 6th, 2014
GR8conf US, Minneapolis - USA, July 28th-29th, 2014.
SpringOne 2GX 2014, Dallas - USA, September 8th - 11th, 2014 (CFP).
Groovy Grails Exchange, London - GB, December 12th - 13th, 2014