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It's been a busy week. Last night and today I was finally able to sit down and get the next installment in the "Building a blog with Grails" tutorial series.

In the last installment we created a form to facilitate creating posts. Instead of using a regular, old textarea tag we installed the Grails RichUI plugin. Not only will it give us a WYSIWYG editor for creating posts, it also gives a more visually appealing date selector.

In this tutorial we'll build on the create_post action we started and use a service to communicate with the database and encapsulate the logic used to create posts.

By the end of tutorial 5 we had logins to the admin section of our app working and the admin index action displaying our posts. Well, our one, single post ( unless you've modified your dataset ).

We need to be able to create new posts by using some sort of GUI in our administrative section. That's what tonight's tutorial will start. I'd like to have put the entire process in one tutorial but things this week haven't really been working in my favor. So I'm separating it into pieces.

In other news, this tutorial series was mentioned by the folks at Grails Podcast. I really appreciate the positive words they had and hope they'll be following the series.

In case you're curious, this is where Topeka, KS is:


On to the tutorial . . .

I wanted to have the next tutorial up tonight, but it's not happening. However, in preparation for the next tutorial I took some time Sunday to install a milestone build of Netbeans.

It wasn't any one thing in particular about Netbeans that prompted me to do the install, rather it was one of the comments left by someone about tutorial #1. In essence, when someone like Petr recommends that an update to 6.7 M3 would be wise, well you do it because he knows what he's talking about.

Anyway, I did install it and the new features are great.

In case your curious, during the next tutorial we'll be installing the FCK Editor plug-in.