Groovy Weekly #72
This 72th edition is being authored live from the Hackergarten session at GR8Conf Europe 2015, in Copenhagen (Denmark), where Groovy hackers are working on various contributions to the Groovy and Grails ecosystem, updating Grails 2 plugins to Grails 3, crafting a Groovy UI builder for Android, or work on some Gradle plugins. A busy evening!
It’s been a little long while coming, but Groovy in Action 2nd edition has just been sent to the printers! And the ebook formats will also be available this week!
Releases
- Ratpack 0.9.17 released with new session support
- SwissKnife 1.3.1 released with Android Res injection and better Parcelable support
Articles
- Immutable infrastructure made easy with a Gradle plugin
Presentations
- Groovy, in the light of Java 8, presented by Guillaume Laforge at Devoxx Belgium (registration required, but otherwise free content)
- Documentation brought to life with Asciidoctor and Gradle, presented by Markus Schlichting at Greach
- Marco Vermeulen on the Groovy enVironment Manager, 2015 edition, at Greach
- Groovy Transformers: more than meets the eye by Ivan Lopez at Greach
- Groovy past and future by Jochen Theodorou at Greach
- Claus Ibsen shares a video of Groovy, Grails and Apache Camel
Tweets
- Groovy in Action 2nd edition has been sent to the printers! eBook versions available this week!
- Object Computing Inc announces Dave Klein and Collin Harrington are joining the Grails team
- Schalk Cronjé learned about Shoogr at GR8Conf Europe and is thinking about integration with Groovy VFS
- Dan Woods believes Ratpack and Spring Cloud is as natural a marriage as cloud native gets
- Add LiveReload support to your Ratpack app development
- CardShifter’s been a happy user of Groovy for its game design work
- Yann Le Moigne is looking for feedback for two of his Ratpack modules
- GVM mentions some alternative names getting traction
- Jorge Martín says you can’t truly understand the power of Groovy AST transformations until you realize how limited Java APT is
- Dierk König tells us that Groovy in Action 2nd edition will be 912 pages long
Code snippets
- Create a REST API fake with Groovy, using npm faker and JSON server
- Eugene Kamenev shares the code of a Spring Boot and OrientDB app in Groovy
- Eugene Kamenev is working on Groovy wrappers around OrientDB’s APIs
Books
- Groovy in Action 2nd edition comes with 10 thousand lines of code tested automatically, notes Dierk König
Podcasts
- Groovy Podcast episode 13 published