I must apologize for not keeping the blog up to date. I promised myself that I wouldn’t get to that point with this blog, but life can take up a lot of your time. A lot has been happening lately, so I’ve been very busy with both home and work issues. I hope things will even out soon and I’ll have more time to devote to my interests.
The biggest news for me is that I am speaking at SpringOne / 2GX in New Orleans, Oct 19-22 2009. I will be giving two talks: Grails In the Wild and GrailsUI Primer. This will be an exiting opportunity to meet more of the Groovy / Grails community that I’ve been interacting with for the past year, and I am really looking forward to it.
Another cool piece of news is that video from our recent Lambda Lounge Language Shootout was posted to the web. You can see all the talks that were given or just my Groovy talk. It was pretty cool to see everyone’s presentations on the web, so thanks to the talented people currently working on Lamba Lounge video (Jay so far)!
Lastly, the Science Channel is again replaying Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series, and I have been recording them. This is a truly awesome series about life, the universe and everything. I highly recommend it to any souls genuinely curious about the meaning of life.
I will be giving another TDD With Groovy presentation at the St. Louis JUG on June 11 (tomorrow night) at 6:30PM. I hope you can make it! This will be similar to the one I gave at the KC JUG back in February, where we will be constructing a Groovy unit converter from scratch using TDD in front of a live studio audience.
There will be a very short introduction to Groovy, then straight into the code!
Hope you can make it!
UPDATE: The presentation went great last night! I appreciate the savvy audience participation, and I had a great time afterwards at the local pub. Here is the code we completed during the presentation, and here are the slides (although there is not much content there):
I’m working on a Grails plugin called Growler, which provides Growl-like notifications within a webpage using jquery, jquery-ui, and the jGrowl jquery plugin.
It is still in the alpha release at the moment, and there are plenty of things that need work, but has been fun and easy so far using jquery usefully. I hope to mature this to a point that it can be used seamlessly.
The growl content is coming from the remote function response, and it is really easy to specify that the response should be rendered within a growl notification.
The 3rd installation of my GrailsUI Screencast series deals with some more advanced usage of the AutoComplete component. It starts off where the previous AutoComplete screencast leaves off.
Music is “Rusty Cage” by Soundgarden.
So far, the series goes like this:
- Part 1: GrailsUI Basics (expandablePanel, accordion, tabView)
- Part 2: GrailsUI AutoComplete Basics
- Part 3: GrailsUI Advanced AutoComplete
- Part 4: GrailsUI DataTable (COMING SOON)
The 2nd installation of my GrailsUI Screencast series deals with the AutoComplete component. I’ve given an example of usage from scratch, including form submission.
Music is “Binge and Purge” by Clutch.
So far, the series goes like this:
- Part 1: GrailsUI Basics (expandablePanel, accordion, tabView)
- Part 2: GrailsUI AutoComplete Basics
- Part 3: GrailsUI AutoComplete Advanced (query options, filtering, dependency) COMING SOON