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San Gria Update: Mapping the Legacy Db from Hell

For those of you wondering how Grails in Action is progressing, the answer is… great! I’ve been sick for the last month with pneumonia which, as you can imagine, has slowed things down a little my end . The good news is that we’re on track for a 2/3 review next month which should see a whole bunch of new chapters out in the wild. I’ve finished the one on messaging and...

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A Grails Jabber Plugin

For the Messaging chapter in San Gria, I needed a good example for our Twitter clone, hubbub. The one I ended up with was a simple Jabber gateway. You can send messages from your jabber client directly to your hubbub account, and they’ll become part of your Post history. Here’s the beast in action. Sent from a Spark jabber client in the foreground to the hubbub webapp running in the...

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groovyawards goes into the judging phase…

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in the first annual groovyawards. It was awesome to have so much positive feedback by and for so many of the Groovy and Grails community. For posterity, here’s the final nomation tagcloud: Congratulations to everyone who was nominated for an award. For the next phase we have circulated the final names around a group of Groovy and Grails luminaries for...

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Grails in Action: 1/3 of the way there…

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...

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groovyawards.org source code now on github

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...