Groovy Weekly #44
Today is the celebration of the veteran day / remembrance day in various countries throughout the world. So I’ll start with a big thank you to our ancestors who fought for our freedom!
This week is also a busy week as a part of the Groovy core team is moving to Antwerpen in Belgium to speak about Groovy at the Devoxx conference.
My picks of the week, among the news below are: the release of Gradle 2.2, the release of ElasticSearch 1.4 which now standardizes on Groovy for its default scripting language, and the announcement of the dates of the Greach conference in Spain and its call for paper which is open.
Releases
- ElasticSearch 1.4.0 released with Groovy as the default scripting language
- Gradle 2.2 released
- GORM for Cassandra released by Paras Lakhani
Articles
- Roberto Guerra is showing how to test the Guava EventBus with Spock
- Ted Naleid on debugging Grails forked mode
- Søren Berg Glasius details the resurrection of GroovyBlogs, sponsored by the GR8Conf Europe team
- Deploy a Caelyf Groovy app on Anynine’s Cloud Foundry platform
Screencasts
- A screencast of the Gradle asset pipeline in action
News
- Jacob Aae Mikkelsen’s Grails Diary week 45
Tweets
- Cédric Champeau highlights the fact that both Groovy traits and Markup template engine use custom type checking extensions
- A new Ratpack application online for beer fans
- Gradle 2.2 available on GVM
- GroovyServ is now available on Homebrew
- GroovyServ will also be available in the form of an RPM
Code snippets
- This Spring Boot class shows how to create your own template resolver for Groovy’s markup template engine
Events
- The Greach conference will take place in Madrid on April 10th-11th, and its Call for Paper is open
- Paul King will be speaking at Yow 2014 on the awesome parts of Groovy
- Kaleidos is gold sponsor of the Greach conference (whose CfP is open)