We got a real good excuse for not having a SoapBox topic this time: too much news!

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Show Notes

• Grails 1.1 Beta 1  released
• Groovy User Group event calendar
  
• Robert Fischers Presentation @ Triangle Java User Group
  
• Sven's Presentation @ Silicon Valley Web JUG, Git Repository
  
• Netbeans 6.5 Released  and Marcel's review
• Grails vs Rails: are we seriously still talking about this?
• Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd Ed Alpha
• Grails Package Naming 
• Switching Grails layouts
  
• Controller.$_closure now maps to closure names  in coverage plugin
• Play Web Framework
• Groovy Web Services 0.4 released
  
• JRuby vs. Groovy for Administrative Scripting blog post
• Groovy & SQLite blog post
• CatchUp Podcatcher now works on Macs
• Groovy Monkey presentation
  
• Ranges in Groovy are hip 
• Groovy & Concurrency slides
  
• TestTemplate plugin released and docs
• RestoreState plugin released and docs
• Stark Security plugin released and docs
• Autobase plugin 0.5 released
• Filter Plugin 0.1  released
• Searchable Plugin 0.5.1 released
  
• Spring Maintenance Policy FAQ