This Month in GR8 - November

GR8 Technologies

Grails 2.3.4 was released with lots of bug fixes, see the whole list here. http://grails.org/news/1288936

Groovy 2.2 was released

InfoQ released 6 more talks from GR8Conf.us, http://www.infoq.com/gr8conf and 8 talks from SpringOne 2GX http://www.infoq.com/springone-2gx-2013

Guillaume Laforge at JavaOne, Liftoff with Groovy 2: new additions to Groovy language and what is coming in future releases. http://parleys.com/play/52509e8fe4b0c4f11ec57670

Tomas Lin has put together a very thorough reference for testing grails apps https://github.com/tomaslin/grails-test-recipes

The Groovy Grails Exchange is Dec 13 - 14. If you not lucky enough to attend watch twitter for #ggx and videos will be published throughout the 2 days. http://skillsmatter.com/event/groovy-grails/groovy-grails-exchange-2012

Groovy.io is profiling sucessfull startups using Groovy http://www.groovy.io/startups/showcase

Mr Haki has been busy writing about Grails 2.3 and Groovy 2.2, http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/search/label/Groovy%202.2

Want to write your javascript in Groovy? Grooscript 0.4 was released

Gramazon is a Groovy library and Gradle plugin for working with Amazon EC2 instances. https://github.com/aestasit/gramazon

Groovy-based DSL for working with remote SSH servers, sshoogr 

Performance of coercion vs closures in Groovy 2.2 from Cedric Champeau http://melix.github.io/blog/2013/11/22/coercion_vs_direct.html

Groovy-wslite is a library that provides easy SOAP and REST webservices https://github.com/jwagenleitner/groovy-wslite

Ken Kousen’s Making Java Groovy talk at JavaOne.

Skills Matter has posted videos from Gradle Exchange in London http://skillsmatter.com/event/groovy-grails/gradle-exchange-2013

A Groovy AST to convert tail recursive methods into iterative ones http://blog.johanneslink.net/2011/02/11/tail-recursion-optimization-with-groovys-ast-transformations/

Grails Plugins:

New:
Wro4j: Web resource optimizer for Grails. http://grails.org/plugin/wro4j

Redis Flexible Cache is an alternative to the redis-cache plugin. http://grails.org/plugin/redis-flexible-cache

Fat Cow Icons bundles free icons from fatcow. http://grails.org/plugin/fatcow-icons

RabbitMQ Native is a well documented alternative to the official RabbitMQ plugin that uses the native Rabbit API http://grails.org/plugin/rabbitmq-native

Updated:
OAuth2 Provider support for the Spring Security Plugin http://grails.org/plugin/spring-security-oauth2-provider

Localizations plugin pulls i18n definitions from the database http://grails.org/plugin/localizations

Facebook SDK http://grails.org/plugin/facebook-sdk

Asset Pipeline: an alternative to the resources plugin http://grails.org/plugin/asset-pipeline

Stripe makes it easy to accept credit cards in your web application. http://grails.org/plugin/stripe

The Cassandra ORM http://grails.org/plugin/cassandra-orm

Astyanax Cassandra Client http://grails.org/plugin/cassandra-astyanax

Quartz Monitor Plugin provides one clear and concise page that enables you to administer all you Quartz jobs http://grails.org/plugin/quartz-monitor

Daily Grails Tips:

Spock: Soup to Nuts - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/spock-testing

The Road to Grails 3.0 video from Springone2gx - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/grails-3

Advanced web development techniques with Grails and Jeff Brown from s2gx - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/advanced-web-app-grails-2

Testing Grails with a TravisCI build matrix - http://www.objectpartners.com/2013/10/29/testing-grails-with-a-travis-build-matrix

Reverse Engineer old databases with Grails - http://www.objectpartners.com/2013/10/10/reverse-engineer-old-databases-with-grails

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