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TeachMeToCode: Intro to Grails Screencast

Teach Me To Code is hosting a helpful, 17-minute long screencast by Eric Berry that provides an Introduction to Grails.  I just finished watching it and it provides a good general overview of how to create a basic Grails application.  The screencast is geared more towards the Ruby on Rails developer looking to branch out in to Grails but it was still pretty useful for a non-Rails guy like me.

Grails 1.2.1 Released

SpringSource released version 1.2.1 of the Grails framework today.  The changelog lists lots of bug fixes, 9 improvements and a couple new features.  The download page has binaries and documentation available and you can also browse the documentation online.

Grails 1.2 Released

Hot on the heels of yesterday's Groovy 1.7 release, the Grails team have released 1.2 of the Grails framework.  New features in this release (which mean little to me at present because I'm only just starting to cover Grails as a new techstack) are:

• Dependency Resolution DSL
• Named Query Support
  
• Improved Performance & Memory Consumption
  
• Named URL Mappings
  
• Refactored Testing Infrastructure
  
• Pluggable Web Containers
  

Release notes have been published and you can download binaries from the Grails.org site.