Gravl - a full-featured Grails-based blogging software

Glen Smith, the man who created groovyblogs.org in around 20 hours, is doing it again. This time around, Glen is planning to create a full-featured blogging software and use all the latest "bells and whistles" of Grails like flexible UrlMappings, different plug-ins, tag libs, custom filters, Ajax integration, etc.

The main motivation is to have it as a learning tool, demonstrating how to implement great web 2.0 (yes, I said it) :-) style of software in Grails.

And the ambitious plan of Glen's is to have all of that implemented in around 1000 LOC (excluding GSPs, JavaScript, CSS)!

Way to go, Glen! And I'll be waiting for Gravl.

Later...

Flight Level 'three niner zero'

If you are fascinated with commercial aviation, like I am, here is an excellent blog of the senior captain of the major US airline (Airbus A320 family of aircraft). When I read it, it really feels like I'm right there on the flight deck, flying with him! :-)

Later...

Rails vs [___]...

There is a series of Apple vs PC commercial parodies called Rails vs [PHP, Cold Fusion, Java, .NET, etc.] from railsenvy folks. There is a funny one about Rails vs Django :-)

I wonder, what Rails vs Grails would look like...?

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Dude, where's my plug-in?

These are exciting times for Grails community. 1.0 RC1 is out in the wild and 1.0 final is well on its way to the big and long awaited release.

As Grails core team is hard at work shaping up Grails core to be ready for the big 1.0, the Grails plug-in community has exploded with all kinds of useful plug-ins ranging from Rich clients to Security, performance and utility functionality, augmenting the core feature set of Grails.

For example, the two recent plug-ins that guys at Cantina consulting have provided are Amazon S3 and Video

It's definitely a great time to be a "Grails hacker".

Later...