Weceem 1.0 RC1 released
The first release candidate of Weceem 1.0 was announced yesterday. Weceem is a Grails-based CMS, which can be run standalone or as a plugin in a Grails application. From the announcement: “This release represents the final 1.0 feature set, and only critical bug fixes will be performed now before a final 1.0 release in the coming weeks.” You can download this RC from weceem.org (which is, coincidentally, powered by Weceem).
An Example Of Why I Like Spock
Howard Lewis Ship, creator of the Tapestry framework, gives an example of how Spock “[makes] writing tests fun, instead of a chore.”
Gradle 1.0 M2 released
The Gradle team has released Gradle 1.0 Milestone 2. Among many other changes, there is now a Sonar plugin; you can analyze a project with Sonar from the project’s Gradle build. See the release notes for more.
Groovy And jMusic: Starting A DSL
Tiago Antão has just started developing a Groovy DSL for jMusic. (It is, he says, currently at version 0.0.0.0.0.1 pre-pre-pre-alpha.)
GR8Conf speaker interview series
The GR8Conf organizers are getting ready for GR8Conf Europe 2011, which is coming up on May 17 in Copenhagen. (There’s just two days left for the Early Bird discount.) Their speaker interview series is continuing; this week, they’ve published interviews of Rene Gröschke, Andrew Eisenberg, Stefan Armbruster, Stéphane Maldini, Guillaume Laforge, and Rob Fletcher.
Plugin releases
Grails Resources Plugin – 1.0 RC2: “a resource management and processing framework”
Grails CodeNarc Plugin – 0.12: add static code analysis to Grails application, using the CodeNarc library
Grails FilterPane Plugin – 2.0.1: “adds filtering capabilities to any Grails application”
Grails Full Calendar Plugin – 1.5.0.1: use Adam Shaw’s FullCalendar jQuery plugin
Grails Ajaxflow Plugin – 0.2.1: extend Grails webflow capability; provide support for “ajaxified webflows”
Grails ActiveMQ Plugin – 0.3: embed Apache ActiveMQ in Grails application
Grails Localizable Plugin – 0.1: provide wrapper for the Google Maps Geocoding API
Grails Taxonomy Plugin – 1.1: categorize objects using hierarchical tags
Grails Redis GORM Plugin – 1.0.0 M4: provide “GORM-like” API for Redis in Grails
