This Week in Grails (2013-05)

Miscellaneous Items

• Grails Resources 1.2 Kickstarter is off to a good start
• Groovy Goodness: Adding Extra Methods Using Extension Modules
• Use the Gradle Wrapper and Stop Wasting Valuable Time
• Greach 2013 in Madrid
• Save Time with the Gradle Wrapper
• What’s new in Programming Groovy 2nd Edition
• HOWTO: Grails / GORM + Oracle Schema
• Java 6 End of Life Impact for Apache Tomcat Users
• Oracle Will Stop Providing Security Updates for Java 6 Next Month
• Profiling Grails Applications With VisualVM
• Weekly Poll: Spring Modules
• Jetty or Vert.x for Ratpack?
• Gradle Quick Start
• This Week in Spring – January 29th, 2013

Plugins

There were no new plugins but 8 updated plugins:

• coffeescript-resources version 0.3.5. Create coffeescript modules that automatically compiles on every file change with jCoffeeScript
• cxf version 1.1.0. Expose Grails services as SOAP web services via CXF
• excel-export version 0.1.4. Export data in Excel (xlsx) format using Apache POI
• google-visualization version 0.6.1. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
• greenmail version 1.3.4. Provides a wrapper around GreenMail and provides a view that displays ‘sent’ messages – useful for testing
• gvps version 0.4. Host, manage and display video assets, and convert standard movie formats to the Flash movie format FLV
• localizations version 1.4.4.8. Store i18n strings in a database
• uploadr version 0.6.1. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader

Interesting Tweets

• @loboweissmann: Sabia que você pode encontrar programadores Groovy/Grails para seu projeto no Grails Brasil? http://t.co/nNxyQZuS (favor RT) #grails
• @glen_a_smith: Ah. The cute and lesser-known Grails g:external tag is now part of my lexicon — favicons beware! — http://t.co/HDpnG3lZ
• @Grails48: Awesome to see this. #Groovy and #Grails bootcamp in Madrid. Site looks great. http://t.co/rjbkvYcT
• @wangjammer5: “@jmhodges: FYI, http://t.co/SmqYv588

  Sucks for everyone involved.” << #grails repo is authd but not signed… Worth reading

• @techieveej: Chosen AppFog over CloudFoundry for Grails. Web interface, 2GB RAM and choice of provider. 5 minutes to join and a running app deployed!
• @DailyGrailsTip: You can now write database migrations in jaxb – http://t.co/SDxLQyqB
• @marioggar: Anybody looking for a #groovy #grails developer? I’ll be available in March http://t.co/NUq4uBg9
• @wangjammer5: I’m available for #Grails contracting work from next week. Get in touch if you need assistance with your grails projects.
• @wangjammer5: OK so now I updated my résumé http://t.co/TSFgpu8T – I’m available for #Grails contract work from next week. Get in touch!
• @DailyGrailsTip: Nacho Brito has made the Spanish Language Grails Development Guide available for download for free – http://t.co/9mkFVzSS
• @glaforge: The remote feature of GroovyServ 0.11 is handy! http://t.co/YtLdmd3G #groovy
• @DailyGrailsTip: Groovyblogs is an open source blog aggregator in grails – http://t.co/ocFm6YiU
• @DailyGrailsTip: Here is an interesting case study on using Weceem for a mobile site in Grails – http://t.co/1RuCWz3A

Jobs

• Dice keyword search for Grails
• Monster keyword search for Grails
• Careerbuilder keyword search for Grails
• SpringSourceJob Twitter feed
• SpringSource job search at jobs.vmware.com

• @keenmshaw: #Java Developers – Perm. opportunity in downtown #Toronto. Core Java, #Spring, #Groovy, #Grails, #SQL. Contact me: mshaw@keenconsulting.ca
• Desenvolvedor Grails – Metrô Anhangabaú
• Contract Java/Groovy Grails Programmer in The Colony, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth Area)
• Grails Developer – Grails, Java, eCommerce in London
• Gezocht Grails Developer – Gelderland
• Développeur grails – Paris
• @MarcosCarceles: Looking for #groovy #grails devs for a contract in London. If you want to know more, contact me on marcos.carceles at http://t.co/QArjqiiG
• Groovy/Grails Developer in San Diego, CA
• Sr. Java Developer in Atlanta, GA
• Grails Lead Developer/Architect in the greater Boston area
• Sr. Groovy/Grails Software Developer in Sacramento, CA
• Intermediate Java Developer in Vancouver
• Grails Developer in Portland, OR
• Grails Web Developer in London
• @martinTercero: Se solicita #WebDeveloper experiencia en Java, deseable Grails,(MVC),interesados enviar CV martin.martinez@obx.mx #Oaxaca #TwitterOax #fb
• Strong Java Developer with mobile and Ecommerce in the North Boston area
• Senior Java/Grails Webentwickler in Leipzig
• Sr. Mobile Developer Analyst with Java/Grails in Columbus, OH

User groups and Conferences

• GR8Conf Europe 2013
  • May 22^nd-24^th Copenhagen, Denmark
• GR8Conf US 2013
  • July 21^st-23^rd Minneapolis, MN

• Grails Getting Started – February 13, 2013
  • Dublin Groovy User Group