Peter and I have been working hard on Grails in Action, and we’re tracking pretty well. We’re nearly 200 pages in, and for a couple of amateur authors (and in my case, amateur Grails developer!), we’re doing ok! But I think you’re probably more interested in what’s out there so far. Here’s the short summary: Chapter 1. Grails Quickstart. In our intro chapter, you get a very fast-paced intro into all of the core parts [...]

Just a quick note to say the source code for groovy awards is now on github under an Apache2 license. Go forth and clone! It’s a tiny app – sans plugins – so you should be able to get your head around it by a quick browse of the NominateController. When I get a bit more downtime I’ll write up some of the trickier bits. I’m particularly happy about is how the browse page highlights [...]