Groovy Weekly #47
Today I highly recommend you read about the nice Groovy dedicated support for ElasticSearch! We also have a few interesting dot releases this week. And there’s the scoop that there’s a Ratpack book in the works!
Don’t forget that the Call for Papers for GR8Conf Europe / US and Greach are still open, if you want to speak about your favorite Groovy technologies and experiments!
Releases
- Groovy 2.4.0-beta-4 released
- Groovy 2.3.8 released
- Ratpack 0.9.11 released
- Gradle Bintray plugin 1.0 released with Maven Central sync
- A much faster Asset Pipeline Gradle plugin with v2.0.4
- First public version of an HTML sanity checker Gradle plugin
- GroovySparql 0.9 released
Articles
- “Making ElasticSearch Groovy-er” with a dedicated Groovy client to interact with ElasticSearch
- Jochen “blackdrag” Theodorou experiments with Java’s processing API for a stub-less Groovy joint compiler
- MrHaki’s Grails goodness: create new application without wrapper
- Testing JVM server-side JavaScript with Jasmine, Spock and Nashorn, by Evgeny Shepelyuk
- Series of articles on getting started with Gradle
- In this interview, JetBrains developer Maxim Medvedev mentions that Groovy and Apple Swift are similar in terms of IDE support, as both languages have type inference, closures, and higher order functions
- On recursive observables with RxJava, and showing how Groovy can cut verbosity down
Presentations
- Android development with Groovy, by Mario García, at CodeMotion Spain 2014
News
- Grails Diary week 48 by Jacob Aae Mikkelsen
Code snippets
- Cédric Champeau created a Docker container with GVM and Groovy installed
- A new GrooScript demo with snap.svg
- Using Firebase from your web pages with Groovy with GrooScript
Tweets
- Cédric Champeau teases for his Groovy Grails eXchange talk where he’ll explain how Groovy leverages Gradle, Asciidoctor, TeamCity for the new website
- Groovy 2.4 beta-4 available through GVM
- The GVM announcement of the availability of Groovy 2.4 beta-4 was done from Groovy’s CI server through GVM’s API
- Gradle 2.2.1 available on GVM
- Bertrand Goetzman spotted a Yeoman generator for Angular.JS + Ratpack applications
- Tomas Lin suggests a Ratatouille inspired book cover for Dan Woods’ upcoming Ratpack book
- Eugene Kamenev is showing a screenshot of an Android Wear application written in Groovy
- Roberto Guerra is having fun with Ratpack and Gulp.JS
- Groovy 2.3.8 has been released on GVM
- Dierk König is looking forward to using Tim Yates’ groovy-stream library more
- Jacob Aae Mikkelsen will be teaching web development with Groovy and Grails at the University of Southern Denmark
- Rob Fletcher points at Gdub a tool that transparently uses gradle or gradlew when available
- The Grain framework now features some stylish bootstrap based templates
Book
- Dan Woods will write a book on Ratpack for O’Reilly
Events
- Autentia becomes gold sponsor for the Greach conference
- Pronoid becomes gold sponsor of Greach
- Remember that the Call for Paper of the Greach conference is still open!
- You can buy tickets for the Greach conference now!
- The GR8Conf Europe and GR8Conf US Call for Paper is still open