Phew, this was quite a long podcast, about an hour! We have a special guest this time, Andres Almiray was able to join us spontaneously via Skype for the whole podcast. In the part about Griffon, we talk about the upcoming logo contest, the Griffon Greet Twitter client and  - tadaaaa - the Griffon book announcement. Of course, we got tons of Groovy & Grails news, too, which is why we hit the one hour mark. Enjoy!

Show Notes

• Grails Templates and the 960 Grid System Blog Post
• Adding and Resizing images with Grails Blog Post
• Mastering Grails: Give your Grails Applications a Facelift 
• Mor.ph now has transparent persistent storage
  
• Grails 1.1 beta3 released 
• Upcoming Grails-UI Plugin Feature: Menus
  
• Grails mirror on Github
  
• Groovy / Grails TextMate bundle Google Group
  
• Codenarc 0.1 released
• GMock 0.5  released
• Groovy 1.6-RC2 is out
  
• Asynchronous Method Calls in Groovy
• langref.org - common programming problems & solutions
  
• Groovy Usage Patterns Video by Dierk Koenig
  
• Gr8 Conference  announced
• greet2 - groovy/griffon twitter client
  
• Grails Functional Testing Plugin 1.2
• Party Time Plugin released 
• i18n gettext Plugin upgraded to Grails 1.1
  
• gridgain Plugin 0.2 released
  
• Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes 
• Grails Functional Testing Plugin 1.2.1 
• Dynamic Jasper Plugin released
• Jasper Plugin 0.9.5 released
• MorphDeploy Plugin released
• Navigation Plugin released
• Autobase Plugin 0.8 released
  
• Stark Security 0.4.2  released
• Cometd Plugin released
• WebTest PLugin 0.6 released

This time, the Grails Podcast team would like to know what SoapBox topics are of interest. Provide any answer, long or short, in the box below.

Show Notes

• Jeff Brown's Community Grails Project @ GitHub
• Gero Klinkmann's GORM example app: Grum (Sources )
• Grails in the Enterprise tech article
• Grails OSIV / SiteMesh issue and current solution
• Twitopolis.com launches.
• ThirstyHead  a new Groovy/Grails Training company 
• DGG 2nd Edition  now released
• HttpBuilder module  available
• YAJSW (Yet Another Java Service Wrapper) 5.0 released, extended Groovy support
• YAJSW alpha-6.0 released
• Groovy Option Parser (GOP) 0.9 released
• HTTPBuilder 0.3 released
• January Issue of GroovyMag  available.
• MacWidgetsBuilder 0.1  and FlamingoBuilder 0.1  released.
• Extending Griffon with Plugins
• GrailsFlow 0.9 released
  
• Grails Shopping Cart plugin released
• UI Performance Plugin 1.0 released
• DataSources Plugin 0.2 released
• Filter Plugin 0.2 released
• Twitter Plugin released
  
• Stark Security 0.4.1  released
• Spring Security 0.5.1  released
• SpringCache plugin 1.0  released
• GrailsUI plugin 1.0.2  released

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There's a lot on the Grails roadmap. What features do you most want to see there?

Here's a little xmas present, so to say a gradle instead of a cradle :-) Enjoy this interview about the Gradle build system with Hans Dockter. We sometimes had some connection issues but still it should be easy to follow (except we both speak ugly German English...)

Gradle is a innovative build system that just released v0.5. Hans Dockter is a independent software developer and trainer for Skills Matter and the current project lead for Gradle.

Would you come to a Grails podcast BOF at JavaOne 2009?

Show Notes

Our SoapBox topics this week is a special Christmas guest.

Show Notes

• New Grails powered site: kontoblick.de 
• New Book: Groovy & Grails Recipes 
• New book: Grails Persistence with GORM & GSQL 
• How to recover from File Upload Errors in Grails (Spring)
• Grails with IntelliJ Idea 
• Grails  Searchable Plugin blog post
• Spring Integration in Grails blog post
• New Groovy Eclipse plugin  released with flash demos
• December GroovyMag is now available
• Groovy Databasing with Apache Derby tutorial
• Groovy & XML tutorial
• Groovy makes iteration easy 
• Guillaume Laforge's slides about Groovy&Grails at Devoxx 08 
• James William's slides about Griffon at Devoxx 08 
• Gant 1.5.0 released
• ReCaptcha Plugin 0.3 released
• Spring Security Plugin 0.4.1 released
• Spring Cache Plugin 0.1 released
• UI Performance Plugin 0.2 released (Blog Post 1 | 2 )
• Shopping Cart Plugin 0.1 released

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This time we would like to know how many plugins you are using at the same time in one of your typical Grails projects.

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

In this special edition of the podcast, we interview Graeme Rocher, Grails Project Lead, on the SpringSource Acquisition and what's coming Grails 1.1. We also discuss plugins, Maven, open source entrepreneur stuff, and matrix maths.