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 Groovy User Group. Spacio.us youtube demo.
• Juglist.net = Java User Groups WorldWide
  
• JavaOne Wrapup. GINA #3 Best Seller.
  
• 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. (english )
• Groovy 1.5.5 Groovy & Grails Job Board (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. Matt on Groovy. Dan on Google Collections.
• Groovy Mixins are being prototyped.
  
• Support Java/Groovy on Google AppEngine
  
• Book Programming Groovy - 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 Twitter 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

• Java Posse Interview with Guillaume Laforge (http://www.javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=311867)
• Feedlr (http://www.feedlr.com)
• Felipe's Entertainment Site (http://www.noiteuniversitaria.com.br/nu/home/index) and technical background  (http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Grails-1.0.1-is-out-p15765301.html)
• Guilder build system (https://madplanet.com/trac/guilder) and discussion (http://www.nabble.com/POC-Release-Announcement-for-Guilder-Build-Project-td15843091.html#a15843091). Graven build project (http://code.google.com/p/graven/downloads/list)
• Acegi Tutorial on InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com/articles/grails-acegi-integration)
• Matt Raible: Grails or Rails? (http://groovy.dzone.com/news/grails-vs-rails-my-thoughts)
• The Sky Showbiz News Portal (http://showbiz.sky.com/). Graeme Rocher's blog  (http://graemerocher.blogspot.com/2008/03/large-commercial-grails-site-goes-live.html) and the initial annoucement/discussion  (http://www.nabble.com/Live-grails-site-launch...-td16016717.html).
• Javaone Grails Sessions (https://www28.cplan.com/cc191/sessions_catalog.jsp?ilc=191-1&ilg=english&isort=&isort_type=&is=yes&icriteria1=+&icriteria2=+&icriteria9=&icriteria8=groovy&icriteria3=) and (http://graemerocher.blogspot.com/2008/03/grails-at-javaone-communityone-08.html)
• YUI Plugin (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/YUI+Plugin)
• Skinnable Plugin (http://www.nabble.com/New-plugin%3A-skinnable-%280.1%29-td15792927.html)
• Stefano Gualdi's FCKEditor Plugin (http://gualdi.org)
• Updated Grails Wicket Plugin (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/Wicket+Plugin)
• Struts 1 Plugin (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/Struts+1+Plugin)
• Clam AV plugin (http://grails.org/ClamAV+Plugin).
• Grails Webxml 1.0 Plugin (http://grails.org/WebXML+Plugin)
• Jettystatic Plugin (http://jettystatic.googlecode.com/files/grails-jettystatic-0.1.zip)
• JavaOne Schedule Builder (http://www28.cplan.com/sb191/login.jsp)
• Listener Feedback Address (grails.podcast@gmail.com)

• G2X Conference Wrapup (www.groovygrails.com)
• Contegix (http://www.contegix.com) - we check to see if we can find the presentation online
• What's coming with Grails 1.x (http://blogs.bytecode.com.au/glen/2008/02/23/g2x-day-1
• What's new in Grails 1.0 (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/1.0+Release+Notes)
• What's new in Groovy 1.5 (http://www.infoq.com/articles/groovy-1.5-new)
• Scott Davis new book: Groovy Recipes: Greasing the wheels of Java (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr)
• Groovy im Einsatz (http://www.amazon.de/Groovy-im-Einsatz-Dierk-K%C3%B6nig/dp/3446412387/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204463157&sr=8-2)
• Sven's new book: Grails schnell + kompakt (http://www.amazon.de/Grails-schnell-kompakt-Sven-Haiges/dp/3939084832/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204463216&sr=1-5)

Just before grails-exchange in London, I completed the episode about Grails Controllers. MVC is now fully explained, are you ready for some more fun at grails exchange? Hope to cu there.... soon on my flight to London.

This podcast is about GSP, Sitemesh and Dynamic Tag Libraries. It introduces you quickly to the core concepts. For further info, have a look at teh excellent Grails user guide at grails.org