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Image Tools 1.0.4 released

Ricardo J. Méndez — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:35:10 -0600

We have released a small update to the Image Tools plugin, adding a function contributed by Paul Bowler to get the current resulting image as a byte array. You can view the updated documentation at the Grails site or download the package directly.

Bridged VMware interfaces

Ricardo J. Méndez — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:11:36 -0600

This is mostly so that we don't forget, but if you're doing VMware server configuration on a dedicated server on ThePlanet.com, and looking at all the eth0, eth1:1, etc. interfaces wondering which one you 're supposed to bridge with - it's eth1.

Also, I strongly advise you remain with VMware 1.0.7 for the time being. We "upgraded" to VMware 2 and had a strange bug where two properly-confiugred VMs wouldn't stay up at the same time. No interface clashes, no MAC conflicts, nothing - one of them would just power off for no reason when the other came up.

ImageTools 1.0.3

Ricardo J. Méndez — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:05:00 -0600

We have released the Grails Image Tools plugin 1.0.3, with some additions sent in by Mohamed Seifeddine:

Removed mediaLib acceleration by default.
Added methods for using SubsampleAverage on creating thumbnails.

You can install it by downloading the package from here.

Grails encryption plugin now on GitHub

Ricardo J. Méndez — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:29:28 -0600

Since we're on a release roll, I've uploaded the encryption plugin to GitHub.

Currencies plugin now on GitHub

Ricardo J. Méndez — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:21:04 -0600

Since Siva requested to participate on the Currencies plugin on GrailsCrowd, I've decided it was time to upload it to GitHub. Here is the repository. Enjoy!

Grails Image Tools 1.0.2 released

Ricardo J. Méndez — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:35:00 -0600

I have updated the ImageTools plugin to 1.0.2 and released it. You can find at the usual place on the Grails site.

This version contains:

A workaround for a JAI 1.1.3 bug described here, kindly implemented by Ethan Larson
Some new functions for thumbnails submitted by Mohamed (I don't have a last name, but I'm sure he reads the list)
Some minor updates.

Caveat emptor: it has been barely tested, since things are crazy but I did not want to delay putting the code out there anymore, so do let me know if you find any issues.

As of this version the whole thing is also available on GitHub.

Encryption plugin documentation updated

Ricardo J. Méndez — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:01:09 -0600

I've expanded the documentation for our Grails Encryption Plugin directly on the Grails Wiki. It includes examples taken directly from the plugin's unit tests, as well as some extra explanations.

Grails currencies plugin updated

Ricardo J. Méndez — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:09:21 -0600

I've updated our currencies and exchange rate plugin for Grails - you can find the details at the Grails Wiki.

Grails encryption plugin

Ricardo J. Méndez — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:05:00 -0600

This time we've released a Grails plugin for encryption functions, using the Bouncy Castle libraries. It currently provides simple wrappers for both Blowfish and PGP, as well as a tool class for generating random passwords, salting passwords when hashing them, and verifying salted passwords.

To install, execute

grails install-plugin http://www.arquetipos.co.cr/blog/files/grails-crypto-1.0.1.zip

The code is documented, and you'll find many test cases for the most common tasks. I'll eventually expand the documentation here as well as on the Grails wiki.

I'll be on the Grails User's List if you have any questions.

Update:

I've uploaded version 1.0.1, which has the following changes:

Added HexCodec class.
Default saltedPassword function will return the value as a byte array, use saltedPasswordHex and saltedPasswordBase64 for string values with the respective encodings. This was done for consistency with the Apache commons nomenclatures.

Grails currencies plugin

Ricardo J. Méndez — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:10:00 -0600

Hello everyone. We've created a Grails plugin to ease handling money amounts with multiple currencies on your applications. You can find the latest version of the plugin here, and the documentation for it on the Grails wiki. We'll be more than happy to answer your questions on the Grails User's List. Enjoy!