Continuing goodness (by Mr. Haki)

Mr. Haki (of Groovy Goodness fame) has some new tidbits up on goodness in Grails:

• Date Request Parameter Value Conversions — Grails 2.0 adds type conversion support for dates
• Generate Links Outside Controllers Or Tag Libraries — “…since Grails 2.0 we can also generate links in services or any other Spring bean in our project”

Continuing Grails screencastery (by Mr. Warner)

Bobby Warner has released another “Grails plus CoffeeScript” screencast (“Another Adventure With Grails And CoffeeScript”).

Upcoming Groovificating conferences

GR8Conf Europe’s Call For Paper[s] is now open! This year, the conference is scheduled for June 6 through 8 (again in Copenhagen).

Tutorials or presentations of potential helpfulness or interestingosity

Generating Excel From Grails, by Shaun Jurgemeyer at Object Partners

Groovy DSL — A Simple Example, by Nirav Assar of Assar Java Consulting

Grails 2.0 — What To Be Excited About (a presentation by Zan Thrash)

Alarming news reports

Elvis carried away by spaceships (Ken Kousen, reporting for Kousen IT)