GR8Conf Europe 2011 is happening next week in Copenhagen. This week, the organizers published their interviews of Luis Arias
http://www.gr8conf.org/blog/2011/05/03/104,
Hamlet D’Arcy
http://www.gr8conf.org/blog/2011/05/06/105,
and Peter Ledbrook
http://www.gr8conf.org/blog/2011/05/09/107.
There are only four days left for registration, and it’s currently open at http://gr8conf.eu/register.
Grails UI plugin 1.2-SNAPSHOT available
Peter Ledbrook is looking for feedback on the latest snapshot release of Grails UI 1.2. Particularly if you have had a JIRA issue on the project and it was marked as “resolved for 1.2,” try it out
http://grails.org/plugin/grails-ui
.
DZone interviews Marc Palmer on Grails
Next in DZone’s series of Groovy interviews, Andres Almiray interviews Marc Palmer, author of more Grails plugins than the earth has ever known. They discuss how he got involved with Grails, his Resources plugin (which is to be merged into the Grails core), Weceem (the Grails-based CMS), his advice for beginning plugin developers, and very much more.
http://groovy.dzone.com/news/dzone-interviews-marc-palmer
Grails Activiti plugin uses in production
Lim Chee Kin has posted some of the responses to his question on the Activiti plugin’s Google group: “How do you use Grails Activiti plugin?”
http://limcheekin.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-grails-activiti-plugin-production.html
One Ring, a scripting rules engine server
Peter McNeil has open-sourced version 0.2 of his OneRing
http://nerderg.com/One+Ring
, a scripting rules engine service written in Grails. OneRing is, he says, meant to be used as a web service that allows central storage of rules common to multiple applications.
http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/ANN-One-Ring-a-Scripting-Rules-Engine-Server-Groovy-amp-Grails-tt3508875.html
New Grails-powered site: CocoaConf
Gj update
Nagai Masato has updated
http://nagaimasato.blogspot.com/2011/05/gj-is-updated.html
Gj, his script for creating executable JAR files from Groovy source projects
http://nagaimasato.blogspot.com/2011/04/gj-it-is-simplest-way-to-distribute.html
. This updated version includes the option to bundle Groovy with your project.
Addressing a few CSS pain points using the Grails Resource plugin
Kim Betti shows how several difficult aspects of CSS can be handled by clever use of the Grails Resources plugin.
http://grails.org/plugin/resources
http://www.developer-b.com/blog/entry/2036/2011/may/06/addressing-a-few-css-pain-points-using-the-grails-resource-plugin
Plugin releases
http://grails.org/plugin/view-models
http://grails.org/plugin/stella
http://grails.org/plugin/paypal
http://grails.org/plugin/jquery
http://grails.org/plugin/jquery-json
http://grails.org/plugin/cloud-bees
http://grails.org/plugin/extra-Grvalidators
http://grails.org/plugin/ibatis
And the GR8Conf interviews continue
GR8Conf Europe 2011 is happening next week in Copenhagen. This week, the organizers published their interviews of Luis Arias, Hamlet D’Arcy, and Peter Ledbrook. There are only four days left for registration, which is currently open at http://gr8conf.eu/register.
Grails UI plugin 1.2-SNAPSHOT available
Peter Ledbrook is looking for feedback on the latest snapshot release of Grails UI 1.2. Particularly if you have had a JIRA issue on the project and it was marked as “resolved for 1.2,” give it a try.
DZone interviews Marc Palmer on Grails
Next in DZone’s series of Groovy interviews, Andres Almiray interviews Marc Palmer, author of more Grails plugins than the earth has ever known. They discuss how he got involved with Grails, his Resources plugin (which is to be merged into the Grails core), Weceem (the Grails-based CMS), his advice for beginning plugin developers, and very much more.
Grails Activiti plugin uses in production
Lim Chee Kin has posted some of the responses to his question on the Activiti plugin‘s Google group: “How do you use Grails Activiti plugin?”
One Ring, a scripting rules engine server
Peter McNeil has open-sourced version 0.2 of his OneRing, a scripting rules engine service written in Grails. OneRing is, he says, meant to be used as a web service that allows central storage of rules common to multiple applications.
Gj update
Nagai Masato has updated Gj, his script for creating executable JAR files from Groovy source projects. This updated version includes the option to bundle Groovy with your project.
New Grails-powered site: CocoaConf.com
Apparently, even iPhone/iPad and Mac developers know that the best tool for web applications is Grails! Check out the new Grails-powered site, http://cocoaconf.com.
Addressing A Few CSS Pain Points Using The Grails Resource Plugin
Kim Betti shows how several difficult aspects of CSS can be handled by clever use of the Grails Resources plugin.
Plugin releases
Grails View Models Plugin – 0.1: provide support for MVVM pattern in Grails
Grails Stella Plugin – 1.4: integrate Stella framework with Grails
Grails PayPal Plugin – 0.6.2: use PayPal for Grails payment processing
Grails jQuery Plugin – 1.5.2: provide integration with jQuery JavaScript library
Grails jQuery JSON Plugin – 2.2: supply jQuery JSON resources
Grails CloudBees Plugin – 0.1: allow standalone integration with CloudBees client API
Grails Extra Validators Plugin – 0.2: provide bundle of extra validators for Grails
Grails iBATIS Plugin – 1.3.1: use MyBatis data mapper framework with Grails
