Groovy Weekly #39
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!
Releases
- Griffon 2.0.0 final released!
- Ratpack 0.9.9 is out moving to Java 8 as a base requirement
- Alain Stalder releases Grengine, another approach to running and embedding Groovy
- RxGroovy 1.0.0-RC-1 was released with a new artifact ID
Articles
- Marcin Zajączkowski comes back with Part 2 of what’s coming up in Spock 1.0
- Andrés Almiray explains it’s time for a desktop application framework JSR
- Trisha Gee is using Groovy to insert XML into MongoDB
- Hans Dockter published the Gradleware July-September newsletter
- André Steingreß writes about principals tracking in Grails
- Part 8 of the series “I don’t like Hibernate / Grails”
- A Spock quick tip for Grails integration tests from André Steingreß
- Quick Gradle tip: setting Bintray attributes for Gradle plugins
- Tomás Lin on Spring Boot and Webjars: overwriting configuration during runtime
- Burt Beckwith answers a Stack Overflow question on overriding Grails’ default create-app files
Presentations
- Ixchel Ruiz and Andrés Almiray demonstrated the funky-ness of Groovy at JavaOne 2014
- Cédric Champeau presented “rethinking API design with traits in Groovy” at JavaOne 2014
- Guillaume Laforge posted his JavaOne 2014 slides about “Groovy in the light of Java 8”
- Guillaume Laforge published his slides about “Groovy in 2014 and beyond” from JavaOne 2014
- Guillaume Laforge presented Groovy on Android at DroidCon Paris 2014
News
- Jacob Aae Mikkelsen’s Grails Diary week 39
- Jacob Aae Mikkelsen’s Grails Diary week 40
Tweets
- Groovy reaches first place on the podium, along with Clojure, beating JRuby and Scala at JavaOne 2014’s Script Bowl competition
- Groovy received its Best Tech Geek Choice Award from ZeroTurnaround at JavaOne 2014
- Cédric Champeau is looking into integrating Sergei Egorov’s Groovy macros into Groovy 2.4
- Dierk König says the finish line is in sight for Groovy in Action, second edition
- If you use dependency classifiers (like Groovy’s “indy”) in Gradle builds with IntelliJ IDEA, you might want to vote for this issue as it’s broken in Intellij IDEA
- If you like SASS and Gradle, Danny Hyun notes there’s a plugin for that
- Russel Hart notes that as of Ratpack 0.9.9 you can stream your Hystrix metrics out to the Hystrix dashboard or Turbine
- Russel Hart remarks that Ratpack’s GroovyChainAction is replaced with Action<Chain> and the Groovy.chain() call in Ratpack 0.9.9
- Craig Burke is readying his Angular.JS Grails Lazybones template
Code snippets
- Ken Sipe’s code samples from his JavaOne 2014 Spock presentation
- More GrooScript demos available
- Ratpack promises, a comparison between Java 7 and 8
Events
- Mac Liaw will be speaking about Ratpack at 1 Dev Day Detroit
- Andrés Almiray is presenting Gradle, harder, better, stronger, faster, at Jazoon
Books
- Jon Kerridge publishes two ebooks on concurrency and parallelism and makes good use of Groovy