Groovy Weekly #59
Groovy keeps rocking with a joint release of Groovy 2.4.1 and also a 2.3.10!
And did you notice the nice new design of the new Grails website, based on Groovy’s website? 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! That’s a big milestone!
Releases
- Joint releases of Groovy 2.4.1 and Groovy 2.3.10
- GMavenPlus 1.4 released
Articles
- Voxxed covers the latest double Groovy release drops and the deliberations on the choice of a foundation for the project
- Shane Curcuru reflected on the fact of Groovy joining a foundation
- MrHaki’s Groovy Goodness: Access XML-RPC API
- Kyle Boon on using Groovy and Go’s GVMs together
- Installing SonarQube for managing the quality of your Grails project
- Miguel de la Cruz teaches a Geb 101 course in this article
- Laurent Napias wrote an article in French on Groovy on Android with the SwissKnife library
- Andy Wilkinson wrote about better dependency management for Gradle
- Dustin Marx on writing Groovy’s XmlParser’s Node content as XML
- Integrating PubNub with Grails by Sumant Thakur
- Ted Vinke on starting a video blog on Grails
News
- Guillaume Laforge submitted Groovy to the Google Summer of Code program
- Ken Kousen is co-hosting the Groovy podcast with Peter Ledbrook
- The Grails team launches its new website, based on Groovy’s new site design
- Jacob Aae Mikkelsen’s Grails Diary week 8 of 2015
Tweets
- GVM crossed the 100k unique installs mark!
- Cédric Champeau is happy having released two versions of Groovy in only two hours
- Dean Macaulay finds that mixing Grails and Intellij IDEA makes a world of productivity
- Tim Yates Groovy-logic library is listed on the MiniKanren website
- Russel Winder wonders how Groovy release can be “hot” as Groovy is “cool”!
- Groovy 2.3.10 is available on GVM
- Groovy 2.4.1 is available on GVM
- GrooScript encourages speakers to use its vintage logo
- Russel Winder is looking for some CSS guru for redesigning the GPars website
- Dierk König notes that Groovy is 4 times in JavaOne 2014’s rock stars
- Cédric Champeau notes the progress on the new Groovy documentation but highlights lots of sections looking for help for completion
- Cédric Champeau highlights this commit of the Groovy executable documentation on type checking extensions
- 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
- Kostis Kapelonis teases about Groovy giving a 75% reduction of code lines against Java, 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 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
- Schalk Cronjé is astonished that some Java developers still don’t know about Spock, Gradle, Bintray and Artifactory
- Erik Pragt is working on an IntelliJ IDEA plugin in Groovy to support Ionic framework
- Dan Woods and Iván López discuss about LogBack’s Groovy DSL configuration 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
- Vladimír Oraný is trying to achieve better test isolation in Grails
- Groovy making 3D figures dance in the browser thanks to GrooScript and Three.js
- Danny Hun shares how to use Asciidoctor, Gradle and Reveal.JS
Podcasts
- Peter Ledbrook and Ken Kousen recorded Groovy podcast episode 7
Books
- Konstantinos Kapelonis is authoring Java testing with Spock for Manning
Events
- The SpringOne2GX 2015 call for paper is open
- You can submit a talk to the Gradle Summit
- The Greach conference has announced its final agenda
- Andrew Reitz will be speaking about Groovy on Android at GR8Conf US