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Cash flow far exceeds purchase price, according to Oracle President Mark Hurd, but investment researcher remains doubtful.
Researcher finds vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the plug-in’s new protection against silent exploits.
In a sudden outreach effort, Oracle promises to fix Java’s security bug and communicate better about future security issues. JavaOne may include a Java security track.
A recent survey found that cloud platforms reduce overall application development time by an average of 11.6 percent, but developers are finding that speed is just one advantage of programming in the cloud.
JavaWorld talks with Intuit Principal Engineer Jim Showalter about the evolving Java technology stack at Intuit, open source tools he uses every day, and where he currently finds challenge and inspiration as a career programmer.
Where once an endless parade of Web service protocols promised that any system could talk to another, today we’ve acheived interoperability by simpler means. Andrew C. Oliver on what we’ve learned from the story of REST vs. Web services.
To collect and analyze data on 200 million daily events, Evernote transitioned from a MySQL data warehouse to a hybrid environment of Hadoop and ParAccel.
10gen CEO Dwight Merriman discusses the genesis of MongoDB, pain points of the traditional RDBMS, and where he thinks the NoSQL trend is headed from here.
The Groovy team announced the second release candidate for Groovy 2.1.0
this week, and they’ve already released RC3 since then. This should be the final RC before 2.1.0 final.
The Griffon team released version 1.2.0 this week.
Marc Palmer is doing some interesting experiments with paid Grails plugin development, maintenance and documentation. He’s testing the waters with an e-book for the email-confirmation plugin, and is looking into how interested people are in a book on the resources plugin. And he should have a KickStarter campaign going soon to fund the development effort to clear the backlog of bugs and feature requests for the resources plugin. It’ll be interesting to see if the historically cheap Java-based community will be willing to dig into their wallets 
Greach is this week, it will be Friday and Saturday in Madrid. Tickets are still available. Two tracks, a great lineup of speakers, Madrid. What more could you ask for?
The call for papers for the two GR8Conf conferences ends in a few weeks on February 15th. Get those talk proposals submitted, here for the EU conference and here for the US conference.
If you want to keep up with these “This Week in Grails” posts you can access them directly via their category link or in an RSS reader with the feed for just these posts.
Translations of this post:
There were 3 new plugins released:
version 0.5. Compiles .coffee source files into .js files
version 0.1.3. Export data in Excel (xlsx) format using Apache POI
version 0.3. Adds support for Hsoy Templates (Google Closure Templates with HAML syntax)
and 21 updated plugins:
version 0.9.2. Notifier plugin for integrating apps with Airbrake
version 0.6.2. Akka actors integration from Groovy and Java, in a Servlet 3.x environment
version 1.0-RC3. Send email asynchronously by storing them in the database and sending with a Quartz job
version 1.1.0.beta2. Provides integration with the Atmosphere project, a portable AjaxPush/Comet and WebSocket framework
version 1.2.1. Provides a convenient and agile way of defining Data Grids
version 2.0.8. Sends an email to a user with a link to click to confirm site registration
version 1.0.M7. A client-side event bus based on the portable push library Atmosphere that propagates events from the server-side event bus to the browser
version 0.5. Allows turning on and off of features
version 0.9.4. Installs a script, develop-functional-tests, that you can use to develop your functional tests more conveniently
version 0.3.5. Supports using Handlebars.js templates with the Grails Resources Plugin
version 1.9.0. Integrates jQuery
version 0.1.1. Allows one to specify an email address where all frontend exceptions will be sent
version 0.6. Adds the NewRelic Real User Monitoring feature to your GSP pages
version 0.5. Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
version 1.0.RC5. Provides functionality for plugins to use to achieve greater integration with each other and with applications
version 0.5.3. Sentry Client for Grails
version 1.4. Execute code inside a remote Grails application
version 0.8.0. Sanitizes markup(HTML, XHTML, CSS) using OWASP AntiSamy Filters
version 0.10.4. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
version 1.7.0-rc1. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration
version 1.0-RC2. Convert texts using XWiki Rendering Framework
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