This truly took a while to get him on the show, but we finally did. We're happy do publish an interview with the Groovy & Grails Advocate Peter Ledbrook. A 50 minutes show, we chat a lot and also discuss thinks like the Grails Roadmap, Grails 2.0 and what you can expect. 

This time it's Sven talking to John Adelus from iTELL iSEEK, a startup levelling the playing field when it comes to wine reviews. I met John at JavaOne during Glen's book signing and then several more times during JUG meetings in the bay area. We talk mainly about CloudFoundry & Amazon EC2 and how you can push your next Grails app with no effort into the cloud + keep it cheap. We also talk quite a bit about bootstrapping your next startup, a topic John is very familiar with as he is involved in two startups at the moment.

John really has an amazing track record, is fun to talk and chat with and a great inspiring person. Don't miss this one!

On a side note: our hosting sponsorship with G2iX comes to an end, something we have foreseen for quite some time as the AppSpace offering has long been taken off the market. We again would like to thank G2iX for their great hosting and fast service, we had a good mostly pain-free live and really respect you guys!

Sven will be migrating our little grailspodcast app over to CloudFoundry and Amazon EC2 the coming days or weeks. Expect some hopefully minor interruptions, all feed URLs should stay the same.

If anyone is out there who wants to become our new sponsor, please let us know!


Show Notes

• iTELL iSEEK
• John Adelus on Twitter
• John Adelus on LinkedIn
• Amazon EC2 Instance Types

We had a chance to sit down with Jochen Theodorou, the Groovy Project Tech Lead, at the end of the JVM Language Summit Day 2. Thanx a lot Andres Almiray for joining me and Jochen Theodorou for taking the time to discuss with us. We speak about some Groovy history and his current role, polyglot programming, JSR 292 (invokeDynamic) and the Da Vinci Machine Project. Check out the show notes for more links.

Show Notes

• Jochen Theodorou's Blog
• Da Vinci Machine Project
• Dynamically Typed Languages in the JVM
• JDK 7 JVM support for Dynamically Typed Languages
• Groovy/Scala/Java Compiler
• JVM Language Summit
• JSR 292

Our SoapBox topic this time has a strong focus on Amazon EC2 and other Cloud Hosting providers. Chris Richardson joined as a co-host for all things 'cloud'. Chris is the founder of Cloud Foundry , which provides automated, outsourced data center management for Java applications on Amazon EC2. He also founded Cloud Tools , which makes it easier to deploy Java/Grails applications on Amazon EC2. Cloud Tools is also available as a Grails Plugin.

Show Notes

• Oracle buys Sun
• Grails Lite on Google AppEngine
• Grails Google App Engine Plugin
• Grails Quick Reference as PDF
• Spring WS Plugin
• Google App Engine vs. VPS Java Hosting
• Build Test Data Plugin released Blog Post
• Testing Labs Plugin released
• Growler Plugin released
  
• Groovy Transforms (AST) released
• What's new in Groovy 1.6 Slides
• Griffon Logo Contest Winner: TheCarl

Chris Richardson

• Chris Richardson's Blog
• Chris Richardson on Twitter
• Article about ORM in Dynamic Languages
• Grails Plugin for deploying to Amazon EC2
• Cloud Foundry - outsourced data center management

Our SoapBox topic is: Robert Fischer, All things Autobase, Liquibase, GORM & GSQL book, his online tutorials, etc. It's a really massive episode, we try to make it a bit shorter next time :-)

Robert Fischer

• Robert Fischer's Blog
• Corporate Website: SmokejumperIT.com
• Robert Fischer on Twitter
• Autobase
• BackgroundThread
• On the Moral Nature of the Universe

Show Notes

• Grails 1.1 released
• Grails 1.1. New Features
• Free Grails Webinar by Graeme Rocher
• Belgian Groovy & Grails User Group - BEGUG
• Fixing Grails 1.0 Many-to-Many Mappings in 1.1 
  
• Groovy 1.6 released (New Features Article)
  
• New Groovy & Grails Features in Netbeans 6.7 M2
• GParallelizer 0.6 released
• Spock testing and specification framework released
• HTTPBuilder 0.5 SNAPSHOT released
• Groovy WS 0.5 Snapshots
• SwingPad 0.2 progress
• Griffon 0.1 RC3 released
• YUI 3 Plugin released
  
• Export Plugin 0.1 released
• Shopping Cart Plugin 0.3 released
• WebDav Plugin released
• Calendar Plugin 1.1.0 released
• PDF Plugin 0.3 released
• Navigation Plugin 1.0.3 released
• YUI Plugin 2.6.1 released
  
• Bubbling Plugin 1.5.1 released
• jQuery Plugin 1.0RC2 released
• Dynamic Jasper Plugin 0.4 released
• iWebKit Plugin released, iWebKit Plugin Screencast
• Joda-Time plugin released
• Webtest Plugin updated
• Tooltip Plugin 0.1 released
• Code Coverage Plugin 1.1.4 released
• SpringCache Plugin 1.0.1 released
• Functional Testing Plugin 1.2.5 released
• ZK Plugin 0.6.1 released
• XFire PLugin 0.8 released
• DynamicJasper Plugin 0.5 released
• Extended GORM Mappings plugin released
• UI Performance Plugin 1.1 released

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.

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. 

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.

In this Grails Podcast Interview with James Ervin we talk about all things Groovy Eclipse Plugin. James is Twittering about the Groovy Eclipse Plugin @GroovyEclipse and also be sure to check out his Blog at http://iacobus.blogspot.com. If you want to join the Groovy Eclipse Team or would like to provide some kind of sponsorship for this project as a company, mail the Grails Podcast at grailspodcast@gmail.com and we'll be happy to connect you.

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!

We talk about Grails 0.4 Highlights, upcoming 0.5 features, the GrailseXchange Conference and lot's more.

Marc is active committer on the grails project and a experienced Java Developer. We discuss his recently deployed, high profile, Web-Applications that were grails-powered and lot's more.

Interview with Dierk König, check out his book at http://www.manning.com/koenig/

About 1 hour Interview with Guillaume Laforge, Groovy Project Manager. Interviewed in the 2nd week of January 2007. Talk includes Groovy 1.0, Highlights, Java vs. Groovy Usage, Outlook to 2.0 and many more. Quite often, we've been chatting away... enjoy!

Interview with Jeff Brown, Grails Committer. Topics include Grails Development, the ExpandoMetaClass, distributed Development, etc.

This episode features an interview with Jason Rudolph, member of the Grails team and active committer. Find out more about Jason at jasonrudolph.com. Enjoy!

Interview with Graeme Rocher, Lead of the Grails Project

This show includes an interview with Dierk Koenig, Author of the book Groovy in Action. The book is currently available as an Early Access online version at manning.com/koenig. Please send feedback about the show to sven.haiges@googlemail.com. I would like to thank Joerg Oberascher and his band Stick in Mind (www.stickinmind.de) for the great music.