# Groovy Weekly #59

> Catch up on Groovy 2.4.1 & 2.3.10 releases, the new Grails website, GVM's 100k milestone, and essential Groovy/Grails articles and news.

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2015-02-24 | Topics: groovy, groovy-weekly | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/posts/2015/02/24/groovy-weekly-59/


Groovy keeps rocking with a [joint release of Groovy 2.4.1 and also a 2.3.10](https://glaforge.dev/posts/2015/02/18/joint-releases-of-groovy-2-4-1-and-2-3-10/)!

And did you notice the nice new design of the [new Grails website](https://grails.org/), based on [Groovy’s website](http://www.groovy-lang.org/)? That’s a family look!
  
Also, I’d like to end this short editorial with a big congrats to the [GVM team who’s reached the 100,000 unique installs](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/570138706973224960)! That’s a big milestone!

## Releases

*   Joint releases of [Groovy 2.4.1 and Groovy 2.3.10](https://glaforge.dev/posts/2015/02/18/joint-releases-of-groovy-2-4-1-and-2-3-10/)
*   [GMavenPlus 1.4](http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/GMavenPlus-1-4-Released-td5722753.html) released
    
## Articles

*   Voxxed covers the [latest double Groovy release drops and the deliberations on the choice of a foundation](https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/02/groovy-latest-double-release-drop-foundation-deliberations/) for the project
*   Shane Curcuru reflected on the fact of [Groovy joining a foundation](https://medium.com/@shanecurcuru/its-groovy-to-join-a-foundation-4145732b4ec1)
*   MrHaki's Groovy Goodness: [Access XML-RPC API](http://mrhaki.blogspot.fr/2015/02/groovy-goodness-access-xml-rpc-api.html)
*   Kyle Boon on [using Groovy and Go's GVMs together](http://kyleboon.org/blog/2015/02/23/groovy-gvm-and-go-gvm/)
*   Installing [SonarQube for managing the quality of your Grails](http://www.intelligrape.com/blog/sonarqube-all-in-one-code-quality-manager/) project
*   Miguel de la Cruz teaches a [Geb 101 course](http://www.kaleidos.net/blog/993/geb-101-simple-scripts/) in this article
*   Laurent Napias wrote an article in French on [Groovy on Android with the SwissKnife](http://www.laurent-napias.com/post/2015/02/22/plus-de-groovy-avec-android-et-un-peu-de-swissknife-dedans) library
*   Andy Wilkinson wrote about [better dependency management for Gradle](https://spring.io/blog/2015/02/23/better-dependency-management-for-gradle)
*   Dustin Marx on [writing Groovy's XmlParser's Node content as XML](http://java.dzone.com/articles/writing-groovys-groovyutilnode)
*   [Integrating PubNub with Grails](http://www.intelligrape.com/blog/integrating-pubnub-with-grails/) by Sumant Thakur
*   Ted Vinke on starting a [video blog on Grails](https://tedvinke.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/starting-a-video-blog-grails-in-the-first8friday-series/)

## News

*   Guillaume Laforge submitted [Groovy to the Google Summer of Code](https://twitter.com/glaforge/status/567675689575669760) program
*   [Ken Kousen is co-hosting the Groovy podcast](https://kousenit.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/now-co-hosting-the-groovy-podcast/) with Peter Ledbrook
*   The [Grails team launches its new website](https://twitter.com/grailsframework/status/568471340686180352), based on Groovy’s new site design
*   Jacob Aae Mikkelsen's [Grails Diary](http://grydeske.net/news/show/84) week 8 of 2015
    
## Tweets

*   [GVM crossed the 100k unique installs](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/570138706973224960) mark!
*   Cédric Champeau is happy having [released two versions of Groovy in only two hours](https://twitter.com/CedricChampeau/status/568009999122894848)
*   Dean Macaulay finds that [mixing Grails and Intellij IDEA makes a world of productivity](https://twitter.com/dean_macaulay/status/567622801943564289)
*   Tim Yates [Groovy-logic library is listed on the MiniKanren website](https://twitter.com/tim_yates/status/567764313252896768)
*   Russel Winder wonders [how Groovy release can be "hot" as Groovy is "cool"](https://twitter.com/russel_winder/status/568008750340173824)!
*   [Groovy 2.3.10](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/568008971828768768) is available on GVM
*   [Groovy 2.4.1](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/568009006440194048) is available on GVM
*   [GrooScript encourages speakers to use its vintage logo](https://twitter.com/grooscript/status/568529775150510080)
*   Russel Winder is [looking for some CSS guru for redesigning the GPars website](https://twitter.com/russel_winder/status/568139020879974402)
*   Dierk König notes that [Groovy is 4 times in JavaOne 2014's rock stars](https://twitter.com/mittie/status/568709714105765890)
*   Cédric Champeau notes the [progress on the new Groovy documentation but highlights lots of sections looking for help for completion](https://twitter.com/CedricChampeau/status/568769788102619136)
*   Cédric Champeau highlights this [commit of the Groovy executable documentation on type checking extensions](https://twitter.com/CedricChampeau/status/568767762417364993)
*   Answering Peter Ledbrook and Ken Kousen on the Groovy podcast, Cédric mentions that [Grails' new site is a static site on Github, forked from the Groovy website](https://twitter.com/CedricChampeau/status/569189775707652097)
*   Kostis Kapelonis teases about [Groovy giving a 75% reduction of code lines against Java](https://twitter.com/codepipes/status/569067464853749760), as an excerpt of his Spock book
*   Kostis Kapelonis thinks the ["Making Java Groovy" book from Ken Kousen is one of the best Groovy for Java developers book](https://twitter.com/codepipes/status/569775343806091264) he's ever read
*   Versions 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 of the [ElasticSearch Groovy client released with special support for Grails 2.x](https://twitter.com/pickypg/status/569885478775861248)
*   Schalk Cronjé is astonished that [some Java developers still don't know about Spock, Gradle, Bintray and Artifactory](https://twitter.com/ysb33r/status/570168038848405504)
*   Erik Pragt is working on an [IntelliJ IDEA plugin in Groovy to support Ionic framework](https://twitter.com/epragt/status/570014405515186176)
*   Dan Woods and Iván López discuss about [LogBack's Groovy DSL configuration](https://twitter.com/ilopmar/status/570113950391664641) and the tool to convert XML configurations into Groovy
    
## Code snippets

*   Andrés Almiray shares his configuration for [combining Asciidoctor, Ditaa based diagrams, PDF rendering, in your Gradle build](https://gist.github.com/aalmiray/7369b977a68baca32e13)
*   Vladimír Oraný is trying to [achieve better test isolation in Grails](https://gist.github.com/musketyr/164bf82d4a07b3355a08)
*   [Groovy making 3D figures dance in the browser thanks to GrooScript](https://twitter.com/grooscript/status/568475830072041472) and Three.js
*   Danny Hun shares how to use [Asciidoctor, Gradle and Reveal.JS](https://github.com/danhyun/asciidoctor-gradle-examples/tree/master/asciidoc-to-revealjs-example)
    
## Podcasts

*   Peter Ledbrook and Ken Kousen recorded [Groovy podcast episode 7](https://twitter.com/pledbrook/status/568896651055771648)

## Books

*   Konstantinos Kapelonis is authoring [Java testing with Spock for Manning](https://twitter.com/mittie/status/567803572570828801)

## Events

*   The [SpringOne2GX 2015 call for paper is open](https://twitter.com/springcentral/status/568948321047293953)
*   You can [submit a talk to the Gradle Summit](http://gradlesummit.com/conference/santa_clara/2015/06/home)
*   The [Greach conference has announced its final agenda](https://twitter.com/greachconf/status/568699197307920384)
*   Andrew Reitz will be speaking about Groovy on Android at GR8Conf US