Groovy Weekly #62
Following-up last week’s decision of the Groovy team to join the Apache Software Foundation, this week, a proposal has been made and submitted, and Apache has announced it on its blog. So the process is now really officially started and on its track!
Releases
- Grails 3.0 RC-1 released
- GVM 2.4.0 released with broadcast and offline checks optimizations
- Groovy Grails Toolsuite 3.6.4 released with Groovy 2.4 support
Articles
- The Groovy team and Apache members collaborated on a proposal to join the Apache Software Foundation
- Matt Raible interviewed Guillaume Laforge about Groovy moving to Apache
- Darryl Taft from eWeek is covering the proposal of Groovy to join the Apache incubator
- Paul Krill writes on CIO “dumped by Pivotal, Groovy moves to Apache”
- Kay Ewbank on Groovy joining the Apache Software Foundation
- Groovy hands-on, in French
- A new Griffon / JavaFX tutorial is available
- A flamewar against Gradle which is said to suffer from the halting problem
- Allegro Tech is sharing its success story adopting Gradle
News
- The Apache Software Foundation announces Groovy’s submission to become an official Apache project
- At the Adobe Summit, Time Warner Cable announced some of its Gradle plugins to work with Adobe tools
- A very interesting contribution from JetBrain’s Peter Gromov has been merged into Groovy’s master to speedup compilation
- OpenCSVIterator: a useful library for processing flat text files in Groovy and Java
- GR8CRM, a suite of Grails plugins for Customer Relationship Management by Göran Ehrsson
- A nice online Groovy playground by Tim Roes
Presentations
- Great introduction to Groovy by Michał Mally at the Groovy user group in Poland
- Groovy for Java developers, by Peter Ledbrook, recorded during SpringOne2GX 2014
- Groovy browser automation with Geb, by Colin Harrington, recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014
- A video introduction to Gradle for Android Studio
Tweets
- Cédric Champeau is annoyed when people reduce Groovy to just a “dynamic” language when it’s much more than that
- Ken Kousen tasting a Groovy Smoothie
- Matthew McCullough Groovy JMeter plugin is moving to Github, like the many Google Code projects following Google’s closing
- GrooScript plugin working for Grails 3 RC-1
Mailing-list posts
- The Groovy incubation proposal is being discussed on the Apache mailing-lists
Podcasts
- Ken Kousen published Groovy Podcast episode 8
Code snippets
- Using RxJs from GrooScript with Groovy’s @BaseScript transformation
Books
- You can find Ken Kousen’s Making Java Groovy book code samples on Manning’s website
Events
- Registration for SpringOne2GX 2015 is open
- Guillaume Laforge will be speaking about Groovy’s continuous delivery at the SwampUp conference
- At the Gradle Summit, Netflix’ build team will share lessons learned about Gradle plugins