Isn’t it a mythical number? The 42nd edition of Groovy Weekly! Will we get the answer to life the universe and everything?
At least, we have a nice list of releases, this week, in particular with Grails 2.4.4, Geb 0.10 and the first milestone of Reactor 2.0!
And if there’s one thing I’d like to highlight in addition, that would be MrHaki’s release of his new book, the Spock Notebook, with all those nice recipes about our preferred testing framework.
Read more...Along with some valuable releases like the first release candidate of Gradle 2.2, there are interesting links on the topic of the Groovy Android story, as well as new glimpse on AST macros and AST pattern matching coming up. Worth a look!
In terms of events, the Greach conference in Spain has opened its Call for Paper, and the GR8Conf Europe crew reminds us that all the great content from the last edition is freely available on their YouTube channel.
Read more...No big highlight this week, but still plenty to learn from!
We have some minor releases, interesting articles on Spock, on how to leverage traits with Geb, some thoughts on reactive programming, new demos and tutorials for GrooScript.
And we can wish a happy birthday to the GR8 Ladies!
Back from JavaOne, where the Groovy project received its “Best Tech - Geek Choice Awards” from ZeroTurnaround, and where it win the Script Bowl competion this year again!
Here’s a short column this week, a bit in advance, as I’m flying to JavaOne tomorrow to spread the Groovy truth!
SpringOne2GX 2014 in Dallas is over. And next week starts JavaOne. It’s conference season! Speaking of which… the fine GR8Conf US crew released many more presentations this week! There’s a lot of content to go through!
The SpringOne2GX 2014 conference is over, but you can see below more tweets and presentations from the second part of the conference, and the videos will be available later on on InfoQ.
Apart from the excitement around Grails 3, Spring Boot, Groovy, and more, I’d like to highlight the very interesting feedback from Scott Hickey who comes back on 6 years of production usage of Groovy at Mutual of Omaha, saying “Groovy is a phenomenal language for businnes applications”, and that there’s nothing “better” on the JVM! See the first couple of tweets in the Twitter section.
Read more...Direct live from SpringOne2GX, in Dallas! So you can expect some news and presentations from the show this week and the next, and certainly tons of tweets!
Speaking of tweets from SpringOne2GX, you’ll notice the flurry of very positive and excited reactions regarding the upcoming Grails 3 release.
In the release section, don’t miss the release of Gradle 2.1.
The Groovy development team is happy to announce the release of a third beta for Groovy 2.4.
This release contains various bug fixes and minor improvements.
I’ll highlight the fact that you can now use multiple labels on your statements (instead of just one).
With beta-3 now, many of the unneeded synthetic methods generated by Groovy are not generated anymore, reducing the number of methods nicely yielding smaller bytecode. This is of particular interest for Android developers limited in the overall number of methods used in Android applications.
Read more...After a long summer break, it’s high time we resume Groovy Weekly, and come back to our every-Tuesday agenda! Get ready for lots of content!
If there were one particular item of news I’d like to highlight in this edition, that’s the news about the New York Times that is going to use Groovy and its Android support (in the upcoming Groovy 2.4), as well as RxJava, to revamp its Android application to make more “reactive”.
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