“Ze was iets kwijtgeraakt bij de spermadonoren“
Feb 162012
Feb 162012
Grails has a lot of plugins that are useful and probably also a lot that are useless. But nonetheless, there are a lot.
Digging through all these plugins takes time and effort. And then there were lists. A useful tool to some up items and this time it’s Grails plugin time.
These are by far not the only plugins that are useful but it can be helpful. So here’s the list in alphabetic order.
Got any suggestions? Leave them in the comments and I will probably add them.
Plugin to embed reports using the BIRT Report Engine into your grails application.
With this plugin you can easily create test data by automatic inspection of the constraints. A value is automatically provided for the property, after inspection of the constraints.
This plugin runs CodeNarc static analysis rules for the Groovy source
Web-based Groovy Console for Grails
If you want to interact at runtime with your application using a console, you gotta have this plugin.
A nice plugin that renders RSS/Atom feeds or any other format supported by the ROME API. It also has support for iTunes compatible podcasts.
With this plugin you can add filtering capabilities to any Grails application.
Google Visualization API Plugin
A nice plugin that will render the Google Charts using taglibs using the Google Visualization API
Provides a rich UI environment using an extensive taglib library. It uses rich components based on the Yahoo! UI (YUI) javascript library extension called Bubbling Library.
Just install this plugin and you have jQuery power at your hands. It will download and install the latest version of jQuery automatically.
Provides Mail support to a running Grails application
Sending mail with Grails has never been more easy than with this plugin.
If you need to schedule a task, use this plugin.
With this plugin you can add rich search functionality to Grails domain models.
ZKGrails: ZK plugin for Grails
Seamlessly integrate ZK with your Grails application.
Feb 142012
OpenCart is a great Open Source tool to build your own webshop. It’s fast, is simple and it’s default packed with a very nice design, not an ugly simple template. It’s much easier to maintain than a package like Magento. It doesn’t have all the options and advanced features Magento has but it’s a very good tool if you just want to sell not too complicated products. The best part, it’s free!
There are a lot of extensions for OpenCart, free and paid. Below is a list of extensions that will enhance the user experience on your OpenCart webshop.
Install VQMod
VQMod is a tool to extend the core of PHP programs without messing with the core itself. It uses XML to search and replace functionality and therefore overriding the core functionality. There is an OpenCart install script for VQMod and a lot of extensions use VQMod. Therefore it’s essential.
The VQMod manager
What’s an extension without a manager. With this tool you can manage the installed VQMod scripts and disable/enable them on demand. It’s even possible to install, uninstall and delete the VQMod script.
VQMod ajax search
Ever wanted a neat Ajax search in OpenCart but were afraid to ask? Don’t ask anymore, there’s an extension for that. Just start typing in the search field and after three characters the magic begins. It best of all, it’s free and, according to the author of the extension, it will stay free.
Carousel Shuffler / Randomizer
The default template of OpenCart is very nice and can be used as a template for your webshop. There’s a nice feature, a carousel of brands where you can scroll through. That looks nice. Too bad they are allways in the same order. It would be nice if the images could be randomized at every page load. I bet there’s an extension for that. And there is, it’s called Carousel Shuffler / Randomizer. This is another VQMod extension.