Groovy Weekly #36
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.
News
- With Gradle 2.1, you can type check or statically compiled all your Groovy code by default
- Oracle mentions briefly the collaboration between Oracle and the Groovy development team to test JDK 8
- Grails Diary week 37 by Jacob Aae Mikkelsen
Articles
- Luke Daley explains the Ratpack execution model
- Jeff Beck details Ratpack promises
- Roberto Guerra dives into how to replicate an asset-pipeline for Ratpack
- Mark Perry writes on Groovy Monad Combinators
- I don’t like Grails / Hibernate, part 7, working on more complex projects
- Integrate Groovy and Java by Henrique Lobo Weissmann in Portuguese
- SpringOne2GX 2014 recap by Uday Pratap Singh
Presentations
- Andrew Reitz posts his Groovy on Android lightning talk slides
- Andrés Almiray presented Functional Groovy at the JavaZone conference
- GR8Conf US 2014 videos
- Kyle Boon on growing up with Grails
- Ryan Applegate and Adam Lanners explain how to get Groovy with Vert.x
- SpringOne2GX 2014 presentations
- Cédric Champeau posted the slides and code of his Groovy on Android presentation
- Making Spring Boot groovier by Graeme Rocher
- Advanced Grails GORM beyond relational by Graeme Rocher
- Graeme Rocher reveals a preview of Grails 3.0
- Marco Vermeulen presented Behavior-Driven-Development with Cucumber and Groovy
- Marco Vermeulen posted the code and slides of his Spring Boot + Groovy + Cucumber talk
- Stéphane Maldini posted the slides of his presentation on Reactor and Reactive Streams
- Lari Hotari’s performance tuning talk: on unnecessary block operations
- Lari Hotari’s performance tuning presentation: on CPU-hogging regular expressions
- Fabrice Matrat shares his presentation on RaveJS and Grails
Tweets
- SpringOne2GX 2014 Groovy BOF started with the case study of Groovy production usage at Mutual of Omaha
- Testimonial from the 6 years of Groovy in production at Mutual of Omaha: “We learned Groovy is better, period.”
- “Groovy is a phenomenal language for complicated business applications” says Mutual of Omaha
- Netflix is contributing heavily to the Gradle plugin ecosystem
- Jack Frosch finds Groovy is getting better and better, especially with traits as a “game changer”
- Stéphane Maldini mentions the ongoing collaboration between the Groovy development team and the Reactor team to make Reactor play nice with Groovy on Android
- You can send Groovy puzzlers by email and through twitter
- Szymon Stepniak shares a recipe for having a good time: Groovy + GPars + Spring Boot
- Andrés Almiray notes issues with JDK 8 update 11 with Groovy and Cobertura and decides to move to JaCoCo instead
- Ratpack is making promises transformable making async easier
- GVM asks your feedback in a survey asking you if you prefer lite or full distributions when downloading candidates
- Dierk König remarks that Intellij IDEA shows Java constructor calls like Groovy named-parameter constructor calls
- Dierk König teases with a GroovyFX demo for his upcoming JavaOne presentation
- Cédric Champeau will be speaking about Groovy on Android at SoftShake
Code snippets
- SpringOne2GX 2014 demo application combining Ratpack, Spring Boot, Reactor and its reactive streams on Java 8
- Václav Pech illustrates a safe thread starter with a Groovy trait
Events
- The 3rd Gradle Summit will be held June 11-12th in Santa Clara, California
- SpringOne2GX 2015 will talk place in Washington DC on September 14th-17th
- The GR8Ladies now have a monthly meetup. Next talk on October 6th with an introduction to Groovy
- The Austin Groovy Grails user group wraps up its coverage of the SpringOne2GX 2014 conference on September 24th