At DZone, Geoffrey Papilion’s post on Groovy — “A Reasonable JVM Language for DevOps” — is mirrored at the Groovy Zone.

Grails.org has long had a Screencasts section, infrequently used and a bit dusty, but listing a number of screencasts. In the last few weeks, the listing has been filled by a number of new video tutorials by one Mike Kelly. He has put together a site that hosts an entire series of these videos; it is called “Foundations In Grails.” See it at grailsexample.net.

Shaun Jurgemeyer has posted a series on using vim as a “Grails IDE” (Part 1, Part 2). There are links to fine vim additions, but most interestingly (to your humble News Editor), there are also a number of custom scripts (as well as VimDiff config settings) that he has put together for use with Grails.

Andrew Taylor demonstrates how one can put together a simple web server in Groovy.

Shawn Hartsock has relaunched his Grails QR Code plugin, which “provides intuitive ways to embed QRCodes directly onto any page in your Grails application.”