This Week in Grails (2012-17)

Check out this post on using Shiro to secure a Grails application. The Spring Security plugins are much more widely used but Shiro is an excellent security framework and deserves a lot more attention in the Grails community.

Not strictly Grails-related, but an interesting read on using WebSockets in Tomcat 7.

And not even coding-related, but here are two funny Tumbler sites that should be in your RSS reader: Texts From Dog and one tiny hand.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There was one new plugin released:

yammer-metrics version 2.1.2-1. Packages Coda Hale’s yammer metrics jars

and 9 updated plugins:

ckeditor version 3.6.3.0. Implements the integration layer between Grails and the CKEditor web rich text editor.
dojo version 1.6.1.10. Integrates the Dojo javascript toolkit
fitnesse version 2.0.3. Makes it possible to use the popular Open Source testing framework Fitnesse in combination with Grails.
marshallers version 0.2. Easy registration and usage of custom XML and JSON marshallers supporting hierarchical configurations
oauth version 2.0.1. Provides easy interaction with OAuth service providers
pusher version 0.3. Wrapper for pusher.com REST api
redis version 1.3. Provides integration with a Redis datastore
spring-batch version 0.2.1. Provides the Spring Batch framework and convention based Jobs
spring-security-facebook version 0.7.3. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin

Interesting Tweets

@graemerocher: Got a nice new forked execution mode working for the #maven plugin, now to integrate some functional tests #grails
@pledbrook: Try logging into http://t.co/YIXLajQz via your Twitter account: http://t.co/5LIhpDGq – look for the “log in with Twitter account” link
@pledbrook: Twitter authentication in http://t.co/vFJ21BEU handled via #shiro and the shiro-oauth #grails plugin. Looking to add other providers soon.
@CedricChampeau: Slides from my #Groovy talk at SpringOne Kiev are here: http://t.co/rNe6hejy
@tim_yates: A two-line tree in #groovy https://t.co/6D1gBIiX
@csantoroTechie: Built on #grails! @burtbeckwith: Congrats to @vsnap for making this week’s MHT “Startup Watch: Five you should follow” http://t.co/1MpvimMi
@nicolas_frankel: #Testing Web Applications with GEB http://t.co/YG8y9MrC #Groovy
@tim_yates: https://t.co/vtF6BrwJ #Groovy LazyGenerator.from x:1..5, y:2..5 where { ( x + y ) % ( x + 2 ) == 0 } collect()
@tgrip: If you need to access the locale of the request in Grails or SpringMVC, check RequestContextUtils.getLocale(request)
@cavneb: For those running #grails apps when the http://t.co/i6SETfXf site is down, you can use the command `grails run-app –offline`
@thejasonlambert: #grails: I forgot to add user reviews to my objects. Finished adding them in 5 minutes. #productivity
@marcinerdmann: looks like this is a nice #grails plugin for easier use of custom marshallers: https://t.co/7Lha8R0D
@CedricChampeau: Slides from my #SpringOne Kiev “Writing AST xforms in #Groovy (beginner’s guide)” http://t.co/8i1ruBhH and source http://t.co/zNvIIMIS
@g3rmander: Just released new #Grails site http://t.co/JN464Yai (social network for gamers) and related sites http://t.co/zhyzgcYv http://t.co/rW15ZqiG
@glaforge: My new #groovy #DSL presentation show cased in Moscow: control a robot on Mars! http://t.co/uAHIGaKN
@wangjammer5: Top tip for #Grails plugin authors. Don’t change the name of the Resources modules your CSS/JS plugins expose. It just breaks peoples’ apps!
@ndeverge: Get a discount with @ekito to the next #gr8conf http://t.co/OsnFDnZc #groovy #grails #gradle #spock #gmetrics #gcontracts #griffon
@tednaleid: released grails redis plugin 1.3 https://t.co/KjWFPHrH w/multiple injected connections on diff hosts/ports…tks to @ctoestreich for the patch