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 migration to the iMac, (4) Glen’s dodgy hacks to get that thumbnail service stable.
Back then, we deployed on Grails 0.4 - and boy a lot of things have changed over the year. The framework has grown, our practitioner knowledge has grown, and the community is gaining incredible momentum. We used to get a few posts a week, now we getting 5-10 a day! We now have a daily readership of 500 avid Groovy/Grails fans. Here’s the feedburner stats…
And how much fun are we having? We’re having a ball. To celebrate, I’ve updated groovyblogs to Grails 1.0.1 and I’ve now moved it to google code, so you can always stay in sync to whatever you are seeing live on the site.
Thanks so much for the awesome content that you guys provide every day. It’s a great time to be a groovy programmer!