Groovy Weekly #68

Remember the Android support of Groovy 2.4? Well, the new New York Times Android application, written in Groovy and using RxJava is now live! If a hugely popular Android app is leveraging Groovy, yours can too!

With Groovy’s move to the Apache Software Foundation, don’t forget to star the new Groovy Github repository!

Don’t miss the interesting interviews of Jeff Brown and Guillaume Laforge.

Reminder about our infrastructure changes, as we move the Groovy project through the incubation process at Apache: the JIRA issue tracker has moved, and don’t forget that the Groovy mailing-lists are also moving. The novelty this week is that the Apache Git repository is now the new mainline, but you can contribute pull requests on the Apache Groovy Github mirror.

Releases

• Gradle 2.4-rc-1 released with annotation processing with Groovy code
• Online presentation service Prezi releases a Haskell plugin for Gradle

Articles

• MrHaki’s on the writing spree:
  • Grails Goodness
    • adding health check indicators
    • log startup info
    • save application PID in file
  • Gradle Goodness
    • handle copying duplicate files
    • usee Git commit id in build script
• Groovy now runs faster on mobile than Java says Grails Info news site
• Iván López on talking about Groovy in Vienna

Interviews

• Guillaume Laforge interviewed by Voxxed during Devoxx France, talking about Groovy’s Android support, Grails 3.0, Groovy in RESTful APIs and more
• Matt Raible interview Jeff Brown on Grails 3, built on Spring Boot and Gradle

News

• The New York Times Android application written in Groovy and using RxJava is now live!
• Grails Brasil launches its new website, promising to open source its code base so other user groups can benefit from it
• Gradle 2.4-rc-1 available on GVM
• Gradle 2.4-rc-1 release notes covers annotation processing of Groovy code

Presentations

• Programmatic browser automation with Geb by Naresha K at the Great Indian Developer Summit

Tweets

• Wtih Groovy moving to Apache, so did its Github repository. Don’t forget to star the new Groovy repo on Github!
• Dagger developer Jake Wharton mentions support for annotation in Groovy code via generated stubs with Gradle 2.4
• GrooScript moved its Groovy Ecosystem demo to a new location
• Voxxed mentions Groovy moving to the speed of Java
• Dierk König mentions that the script of Groovy in Action, 2nd edition, has over 1600 commits on its private Git repository
• Lazybones 0.8.1 available on GVM
• Dan Woods highlights Ratpack 0.9.15’s Groovy extensions easily transform RxJava Observables into Ratpack Promises

Podcasts

• Groovy podcast episode 11 available

Screencasts

• The NetBeans team recorded a screencast about Minecraft Forge showcasing its Gradle support

Books

• Groovy in Action, 2nd edition, now in proof-reading stage!
• New book, in Portuguese, “Falando de Grails”

Code snippets

• Load JSON data into Neo4J with Groovy and Cypher

Jobs

• A job for beer lovers and Grails experts

Google+ posts

• New improvements to Tim Roes’ Groovy Playground

Events

• GR8Conf Europe will feature more Groovy puzzlers
• Grails event driven plugins at GR8Conf Europe by Göran Ehrsson