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May 2009 GroovyMag available

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009


The May 2009 GroovyMag is now available.  This month:

  • Spring Integration with Groovy (Bob Brown)
  • Get Rich Quick with Flex and Grails – Part 2 (Jeremy Anderson)
  • Groovy Under the Hood – our new monthly column (Kirsten Schwark)
  • Grails in a J2EE world – The Web (Shawn Hartsock)
  • Plugin corner: Lookups plugin (Dave Klein)
  • Community News (Dave Klein)
  • and more!

More info can be found at http://groovymag.com/latest

April 2009 GroovyMag available

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

The April 2009 GroovyMag is now available.  This month:

  • we wrap up last month’s looks at “Groovy Under the Hood” (Kirsten Schwark)
  • wrap up “New GORM Features in Grails 1.1″ (Bashar Abdul-Jawad)
  • cover  using Flex and Grails together (from Jeremy Anderson)
  • using the Sumatra testing tool to test JavaScript from Groovy (from Scott Vlamnick)
  • review the latest community news (Dave Klein)
  • visit the Plugin Corner to learn about the JavaScript Validator plugin (Dave Klein).

More info can be found at http://groovymag.com/latest

GroovyMag March 2009 available

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The latest edition of GroovyMag is now available.  Contents include:

Groovy Under the Hood

Kirsten Schwark delves deep in to Groovy to show you exactly what’s going on behind the scenes.

AJAX Forms with Grails

Mo Sayed demonstrates how to make your forms more responsive with AJAX.

New GORM features in Grails 1.1

In this piece, Bashar Abdul-Jawad guides you through all the great new GORM goodness Grails 1.1 has to offer.

Grails in a J2EE World

Shawn Hartsock kicks off a series detailing the best ways to integrate Grails in to your J2EE stack, taken from his own real life experiences.

Community news

Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein.

Plugin Corner

Dave Klein shows you how to make your forms a bit more user-friendly with the Help Balloons plugin.

GroovyMag supports Google Checkout

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

For anyone who was interested in GroovyMag earlier, but was unable or unwilling to use PayPal, Google Checkout is now an option for payment.  Some of you in some countries were having some difficulty paying with the credit card of your choice with PayPal, so this hopefully will give you some more choice.

This has gone through some testing this weekend and it looks like everything is functioning.  If you make a purchase with Google Checkout and have a problem, please email michael@groovymag.com for prompt attention.

Upcoming articles in March 2009

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Here’s a sneak preview of some of the content that we’re working on bringing you next month (note that articles are subject to change, but these all *should* be in the next issue!)

Using Perf4J with Groovy

From the Perf4j website “Perf4J is to System.currentTimeMillis() as log4j is to System.out.println()”

Groovy Under the Hood

Get down into the guts of Groovy to learn exactly what’s going on.

What’s new in Grails 1.1

Useful and practical advice to get the most out of the latest Grails.

AJAX Forms in Grails

Make your forms interactive with this AJAX tutorial.

Griffon Logo Contest

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

The good folks at the Griffon project need your help!

They’re running a contest to have someone develop a logo for the project. The lucky winner will get all the fame, fortune and glory that goes with being said winner, along with a one year subscription to GroovyMag! :) But the runners-up don’t go home empty-handed – they’ll each get one free issue of GroovyMag too!

GroovyMag is proud to sponsor the Griffon project’s logo contest. See their page for more details!

GroovyMag February 2009 available!

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

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The February 2009 GroovyMag is available, with articles on

  • writing a grails plugin
  • leveraging the Spring Framework from Groovy
  • introduction to the Griffon framework
  • using the Grails Twitter plugin
  • and more!

Get yours today!

GroovyMag SSL-enabled

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

For some reason I’d not had SSL enabled on the GroovyMag site for the past couple of months. Thanks to the few of you that alerted me to this. Logins and registrations and now handled through HTTPS instead of HTTP. If this was a point of concern for you before, it needn’t be any more. I apologize for the oversight. I’d actually *had* the SSL cert months ago, installed it, but had disabled the use of HTTPS in the code during development and forgot to reenable it when we went live!