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

Anyone who knows about events around Groovy & Grails (commercial or not), drop us an email and we will add you to the permissions list for this .

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. 

How do you think the G2One acquisition by SpringSource will affect your companies adoption of Groovy & Grails?

Our SoapBox topics this week is of course the G2One Acquisition by SpringSource, the company behind the Spring Framework. Exciting times.

Show Notes

• SpringSource acquires G2One. 
• Developing Grails Plugins with Github
• Lightest 0.1 Released also with Tutorial
• Writing JEE Applications with Flex and Grails
• Converting legacy Rails apps: The Domain 
• Grails vs Rails: A fun comparison
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• From Zero to Grails in 5 mins on Glassfish v3
• Intellij 8 Released (click Grails link on this page)
• Flexible Feeds  launched.
• Podcast-Get podcast download script CatchUp Groovy Podcast Client 
• Grails 1.0.4 Available  Release Notes
• Reducing Grails Deployment Size .. by a lot
• Pausing and Resuming Quartz jobs programmatically
• Improved Griffon testing support  
• An Alternative Acegi Plugin
• iUI Plugin released  and plugin doc page
• SoundManager plugin released  and .
• Jawr 2.51 Released
• Searchable 0.5 Released
• Podcast Interview with Graeme Rocher and Rod Johnson

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This week we want to find out how many of you are actually using Grails right now in your day-to-day job or at least when you plan to use Grails. Vote now!

In the Soapbox we are taking a brief look at the current state of the Grails Testing Plugin, which will be included in Grails 1.1.

Show Notes

• Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API
• Mastering Grails: Testing your Grails Application
• Flex Datagrids and Grails Blog Post
  
• Converting legacy Rails apps to Grails (with NetBeans) Part 1 - Blog Post 
• Grails & AJAX Screencast 
• Grails for PHP Developers
• RadRace Winners use Grails
• New GORM features in Grails 1.1. and DGG update
• Groovy for internal DSLs 
• released
• Groovy SQL Closure Examples 
• ObjectGraphBuilder's new tricks 
• *. and ?: / Spread-Dot and Elvis Operator intro 
• Groovy makes Java better Screencast
• Groovy makes Code Generation Simple Screencast
  
• Testing with Groovy GTAC Slides 
• Java Black Belt Exam for Groovy
  
• Running a Griffon app in fullscreen 
• Grails BackgroundThreads Plugin 1.3 released 
• i18n-gettext Plugin released 
• Autobase plugin 0.2 released
• YUI Plugin updated
• GrailsUI Plugin and background blog entry (id, version, content, created, enclosure_length, enclosure_type, enclosureurl, tags, title)

Morph is a provider of Platform as a Service and we chat with Guy Naor, the CTO of Morph, about how you can easily host your Grails app with them. Full disclosure, we are sponsored by mor.ph but they have been on our list since they introduced Grails hosting. So if you are still looking how and where you can host your next app, this is for you.

This week we explore Grails Testing support.

We know, we wanted to discuss the Grails Testing Plugin but we had some difficulties finding a lot of time and getting the latest version installed. So we decided to discuss the outcome of the Groovy Awards instead.

Groovy Award Winners

• Peter Ledbrook (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/peter-ledbrook)
  ... for Mailing List support and plugin authorship (JSecurity, GWT, Profiling, Remoting, Testing)
  
  

  Marc Palmer (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/marc-palmer)... for the Documentation
  ... for the Plugins (Feeds, Mail, Authentication, Postcode, Static Resources, Grails documentation)
  
  Danno Ferrin (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/danno-ferrin)

  ... for Griffon (probably the biggest thing to come out this year)

  
  
  Marcel Overdijk  (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/marcel-overdijk)
  ... for Prolific Plugin support (Xtemplates, I18N templates, RefCode, OpenID, YUI, Ext plugin, Sifr Plugin, PeekInGrails)
  
  
  
  
  Burt Beckwith (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/burt-beckwith)
  ... for Mailing List support

Show Notes

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We would like to find out a bit more about Groovy's latest project: Griffon.