I am happy to publish my first interview with Andres Almiray. I met him quickly at JavaOne 2008 and we now had the chance to meet at a JUG Meeting of the Bay Area at Google in Mountain View. In the interview, we talk about all things 'Builder', especially the GraphicsBuilder that Andres is into. Hear it for your self!

In the SoapBox, we talk about the mobile web and where it is heading. Is the iPhone killing all other mobile devices?

• on their Grails experiences
• Grails plugin for Hudson news update
• released
  
•  announced.
• Marc Palmer about JSONBuilder
  
• Java, Groovy and Scala side by side
• More than I wanted to know about groovy.lang.Closure article
• Proxy-o-Matic module released.
  
• GLdapo 0.6 released.
• Scott Davis: JavaOne 2008 Groovy Rockstar. And Mastering Grails article.
• JRuby on Rails: Good or Bad for Java blog
• Javascript framework usage among top websites  from Pingdom
• Feeds Plugin 1.4 released
• released

Our SoapBox Topic:

• What's going on with the Searchable plugin?   http://www.nabble.com/Abandoning-Searchable-Plugin-td17650562.html
• People switching to Apache Solr? Support for clustering? Problems with docs matching implementation? Should it be integrated into Grails core?

• Grails 1.0.3  released.
• grailstutorials.com  launches. 
• mor.ph Deploy Grails Applications
• Profiler Plugin  released.
• ExtJS plugin  discontinued.
• YUI Plugin upgraded to YUI 2.5.2
• available
• Grails Mail Plugin available
• updated
• i18n plugin updated
• Compress Plugin released
• J2D Plugin released (example)
• Quartz Plugin 0.3.2 released
• I18N Plugin 1.0.3 released
  
• Searchable plugin discussion.

• Slides from the Groovy and Grails sessions at JavaOne
  
• New Book: Beginning Groovy and Grails
  
• Slides from James Erwin's Groovy Presentation at eBay
  
• Greet - a Groovy Client
• Video of Danno and Andres session at JavaOne
  
• Don't fear the RegExp  - new features in Groovy regular expressions.
•  released.
• Gant 1.3 released. 
• Grails OAuth Plugin 0.1 released. OAuth Info.
• Quartz Plugin v0.3 released.
• SyntaxHiglighter Plugin v0.1 released.
  
• Jawr Plugin  v2.1 released.
• Debug Plugin 1.0 released.
• jSecurity Plugin 0.2.1 released.

This interview was recorded on May 21, 2008. Matt Raible is an open source developer who enjoys Java, Web Development, Ajax and AppFuse. Weblog at http://raibledesigns.com/

Besides others, we discuss how LinkedIn, the well-known social network uses Grails for development of its services.

• Melbourne . Spacio.us youtube .
• Juglist.net = Java User Groups WorldWide
  
• JavaOne Wrapup. GINA .
  
• Netbeans 6.1 released. But no Groovy and Grails plugins.
• Embedding Glassfish v3 with Grails article.
• German Groovy and Grails wiki launched.
  
• Groovy 1.6 Beta 1 released. The full release notes.
• GMaven 1.0 rc-1 released. New and noteworthy.
  
• Groovy Faster than Ruby? Apparently.
• Podcast: Java - Still hot or losing it's flavour? on aboutgroovy.com
  
• ACEGI Plugin 0.3 released
• Grails RefCode plugin released.
• Grails Recaptcha plugin released.

This interview was done at the press room of JavaOne 2008, so expect some background noise.. but the overall quality should be quite well. Guillaume talks about the recent 1.6 Beta 1 release of Groovy, the roadmap, G2One, DSLs and more.

• Grails in the Chris Richardson about his Grails Amayon EC2 plugin (presentation)
  
• Grails EC2 Plugin by Chris Richardson
  
• Updated Acegi plugin with LDAP support.
  
• Performance tuning for Grails app in a memory constrained environment
• JetBrains JetGroovy Plugin v1.5  released.
• Grails nominated for a JAX innovation award. Receives second place. ( )
• Groovy 1.5.5 (first post) GrailsJobs
  
• COJUG interview with Neal Ford.
  
• DZone interviews with Venkat Subranamium and Alexandru Popescu
  
• Gradle 0.1.1 released.
• Searchable 0.4.1 Grails Audit Logging plugin released.
• Acegi Plugin 0.2.1 released
• Authentication Plugin 1.0
  
• OpenID plugin released.
• RichUI Plugin 0.4 released
• Jawr Plugin Released, Serving Javascript Fast Article
  
• LDAP Plugin 0.2 released (project home)
• JSecurity Plugin 0.2 released
• Web2.0 Logo Creator. Alternative.

• JavaOne 2008Groovy SessionsGeneral Session Catalog
  
• JasperGrails tutorial and release of 0.7.1. 
• Interview with Jason Rudolph at DZone
• Interview with Glen Smith at DZone
  
• Using fine-grained Acegi howto.
  
• Updated Grails Reference with links to integrated frameworks
  
• New chapter about validation of German Grails Book
  
• Deploying a Grails App to Amazon EC2
  
• Grails Interactive Call for Testing
  
• Definitive Guide to Grails at Apress (2nd edition)
  
• Getting started with Grails articles by Jon Dickinson (12)
• Andy Glover's new Groovy tutorial.
• Groovy vs Google Collections. on Groovy. on Google Collections.
• Groovy Mixins are being prototyped.
  
• Support
  
• Book - Venkat's Blog
  
• ExtJS Plugin Released.
• Ext Scaffolding Sneak Previews blog post
• Crowd plugin  released.
• Jawr plugin released

• Grails 1.0.2 Released
• Using GORM DSLs
• GraphicsBuilder 0.5 Released. Release notes  and download / documentation
• Writing a bot in Grails.
• Rails and Grails comparison.
• Implementing a File Upload progress bar using Ajax
• Netbeans 6.1 Beta now with nicer Groovy and Grails support. Marcel's review.
• Grails 1.0.2 docs  in Windows CHM format.
• GroovyChart - a Groovy Builder for JFreeChart download.
• Groosh 0.3 announcement and documentation
• Searchable 0.4 New FCKEditor v0.6 RichUI Plugin v0.3 released.
• Static Resources v0.5 released.
• PostCode plugin released.
• License Management Plugin v0.1 released. 
• Groovy & Grails User Groups around the world
• ShowSource
• Updated Yahoo! UI Plugin
• Beginning Grails Articles by Scott Davis (blogged by Charles Ditzel)
• Groovy SoC Page

• Grails SoC Page
• PostCode Plugin
• Hibernate Events Plugin (Blog)
• DBUnit plugin