Your humble News Gatherer has been busy for the last two weeks, and has had little time for the gathering of news. And what did the Groovy community respond with? Why, a bunch of NEWS, of course! Here are links. The titles of most will speak for themselves (if you find that frightening, you may cover your ears — or I may need to use a different expression).
Grails: A Quick-Start Guide is back, by Dave Klein
“Hacking the Grails Spring Security Plugin” at Groovy & Grails Exchange, by Burt Beckwith
log.rofl(‘Fun with Groovy metaprogramming’), by Ken Kousen
Suggestions to keeping Grails one step ahead – a wishlist, by Tomás Lin
Slides from ‘A year in the life of a Grails startup’, also by Tomás Lin
The Art of Groovy Command Expressions in DSLs, by Hamlet D’Arcy
Grails 2.0 Released with Improved Usability, Class Reloading, and Query DSL, by Rick Hightower for InfoQ
Videos and slides of Groovy / Grails eXchange 2011, by Guillaume Laforge
The Promises to trust, by Václav Pech
The Mahout Recommender Plugin 0.5.1 Released, by Lim Chee Kin
IntelliJ IDEA 11 for the Groovy Developer, by Hamlet D’Arcy
). Do download this release and test it, if you’re into that sort of thing. The Grails team is working to make 2.0 final a solid release, and every bit of feedback helps.
) compressing JPG images using Groovy.
