Sven and I have been keen for a while to run a small community-driven awards programme to honor those guys who’ve been working hard on the lists, on the blogosphere, writing plugins, committing, twittering and generally evangelising the platform, and we’ve taken the first step. Announcing the official launch of: If you head over to groovyawards.org, you can signup, nominate people, and add comments to existing nominations. We’re running it for a month to get [...]

A while back, I started talking about this idea for the Grails Podcast to run a “Groovy Awards” to recognise those people in our community that do an awesome job on the mailing lists, blogosphere, releasing plugins, and all that jazz. No big prizes – just some cheezy TShirts with a lot of love from the community. Well I’ve had a few nights off this week, so I finally got around to putting together a [...]

Well… it had to happen. After a week of people signing up twitter feeds and feedburner feeds from groovyblogs itself, I took some good advice from James, and implemented feed moderation. When you sign up your feed to groovyblogs, you now get a message saying Behind the scenes groovyblogs will now send me an email with your feed url and an opportunity to approve/deny your feed signup with a single click (so it’s pretty low [...]

When we last left this story, I was talking about integrating Grails and JMS so that groovyblogs can put all of its feed and thumbnail fetch requests on a JMS queue. Now it’s time to look at the second half of the story. How my standalone groovy feed/thumbnail fetcher can pick requests off the queue, and put a response back on a different queue. First a little background. Spring makes writing message driven POJOs really [...]

I’ve just finished converting groovyblogs over to a (largely) message driven architecture. I’m a bit of an JMS noob, but the adventure has been fantastic, and it’s time to write some stuff down. The reason I’m even interested in a messaging is for the acquisition of feed xml and thumbnails. I presently do the former in-process in the app server, and the later via Groovy XML-RPC to a Thumbnail Server running locally. My re-design involves [...]