Groovy Weekly #37
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!
Releases
- GrooScript 0.6 is out, on the road to 1.0, and Jorge Franco is looking for your feedback
- Gradle Android plugin 0.13 works with Gradle 2.1
- JBake 2.3.2 with Asciidoctor 1.5
News
- Incremental Java compilation landed in Gradle 2.1
- Grails Diary week 38 by Jacob Aae Mikkelsen
Articles
- What’s new in Spock 1.0, by Marcin Zajączkowski
- GPars remote dataflows and actors by Mario García
- Writing React.JS components in Groovy with GrooScript
- The “Grails revolution” movement is looking forward to spreading the word on how great Grails is
- What’s new with Gradle Vaadin Plugin 0.9? Groovy support!
- MrHaki’s Gradle Goodness: Adding dependencies only for packaging to war
- Multi-project code coverage using Gradle and JaCoCo by Clemens Siebler
- After his Hibernate/Grails series, Robert Peszek comes to functional programming: “My dream: software without any bugs … and is Groovy functional? How about Grails?”
- How to speed up Gradle builds? Use the daemon!
Presentations
- Guillaume Laforge presented about Groovy’s Android support at DroidCon Paris 2014
- Idiomatic Spock with Robert Fletcher recorded at Netflix
- Trisha Gee gave her Groovy / Angular.JS / HTML 5 / MongoDB talk to the Virtual JUG
- Micro-services with Groovy and Spring Boot by Marcin Grzejszczak
- GR8Conf US 2014 presentations
- Groovy at SmartThings presented by Scott Vlaminck and Ryan Applegate
- The Groovy Ecosystem revisited by Andrés Almiray
- Getting started with Ratpack presented by Jeff Beck
- Realtime Ratpack by Robert Fletcher
- Introduction to Gradle by John Engelman
- Grails Goodness presented by Hubert Klein Ikkink
- Gradle Goodness presented by Hubert Klein Ikkink
- Distributed platform development with Groovy by Robert Fletcher
- Introduction to multithreaded programing with GPars by Jon DeJong
- Tour de plugin, by Søren Berg Glasius
- Grails Worst Practices by Burt Beckwith
- Griffon, what’s new and what’s coming, by Andrés Almiray
- How to test your Grails application presented by Colin Harrington
- Hybrid view rendering with Grails by Robert Fletcher
- Testing BitCoin and MasterCoin with Spock by Sean Gilligan
- Performance tuning Grails applications by Lari Hotari
- What’s new in the Grails Spring security plugin by Burt Beckwith
- Application architectures in Grails by Peter Ledbrook
- Idiomatic Spock by Robert Fletcher
- Getting Grails into the Enterprise by Ryan Vanderwerf
- Metaprogramming with the Groovy Runtime by Jeff Brown
- Getting Groovy with Graphs by Stefan Armbruster
- Serving Websockets to iOS, Android and the Web using Groovy, Spring, Angular.js, SockJs and STOMP presented by Sean Gilligan
Screencasts
- Bertrand Goetzmann publishes a screen cast of Grails with the Ionic framework demonstrating a REST API example
Tweets
- Peter Niederwieser is lobbying for fixing those issues in the IntelliJ IDEA Groovy support. Please vote for them!
- Ratpack 0.9.9 onward will require Java 8
- Ratpack ships new releases every first day of the month
- Ratpack’s RxJava support in Java 7 vs Java 8
- You can decorate your garden with Groovy flowers!
- Proper overloaded setter support is coming to Groovy
- Groovy as a gateway drug into the JVM
- With OpenJDK 8 out, Ratpack’s next release will require Java 8
- Benoît Hédiart mentions CodingGame.com: a coding game where you can program games in Groovy
- Guillaume Laforge is having fun coding an Android application in Groovy for helping her daughter to learn how to read
- Guillaume Laforge on stage at DroidCon Paris 2014 evangelizing Groovy on Android
- GroovyBlogs now displays latest blog entries and most popular ones
Code snippets
- How to create multiple Android dex files with a Gradle trick