Well it’s been a year today since Groovyblogs went pens down and a lot of things have happened. In the last year it’s seen: Browser Thumbnails Language Translations Ajax Feed Preview Keyword Filtering and tons more since then… It’s also seem more than the odd outage through either (1) the little one’s affinity with the flashing light on the UPS, or (2) lightening strike (really!), (3) catastrophic server failure of the original whitebox hardware and [...]

G2X was one sensational event and Jay/Bob/Scott and the boys sure know how to put on a NFJS show. Jay is just one infectious guy who really “gets it” when it comes to what developers are looking for. The food was just sensational, the speaker line-up meant you has “clashing” sessions all the time (where you wanted to go to more than one session in a timeslot, but you don’t implement clone()), and the Grails [...]

I’ve been meaning to have a look at both Gant and easyb for a while, so I headed off to Andy Glover’s sessions where he had one on each. Gant looks pretty cool. Gives you all the power of Ant, but using Groovy imperatives rather than xml. Very cool for branching and doing other funkyness during the build. You also get Ivy bundled in the mix, so you get Maven-like dependency goodness out of the [...]

Ok. Gotta blog up some of this stuff before it gets stale. Last night Graeme took us through what’s on the planning on the horizon for Grails 1.1. JPA support. Lot of people asking about this (really?). So there is likely to be a JPA plugin down the track but since JPA doesn’t support Criteria, it’s gonna be a fair bit of work for the team to implement. JSP Taglib in GSPs. You’ll be able [...]

Well it was over 20 hours to get here, but I’m landed in Washington DC ahead of the Groovy Grails Exchange which starts tomorrow morning. I’m going to hopefully blog up a bit of the action while I’m here since my talks aren’t until later in the week. I’ve got to say that Washington is a really beautiful city, and reminds me heaps of Canberra (must be a capital city thing). We’ve been staying a [...]

I’m doing a session at The Groovy and Grails Experience called “Grails UI Extreme Makeover”, so I thought I’d throw out a little teaser on how things are going… The official blurb I’m putting up for the session, goes something like… A tour-de-force of Grails plugins and Ajax tips and tricks where we turn a default Grails app into a Web 2.0 VC-attracting machine in 1.5 hours. In this session we explore a selection of [...]