SpringOne2GX 2014 in Dallas is over. And next week starts JavaOne. It’s conference season! Speaking of which… the fine GR8Conf US crew released many more presentations this week! There’s a lot of content to go through! Releases GrooScript 0.6 is out, on the road to 1.0, and Jorge Franco is looking for your feedback Gradle Android plugin 0.13 works with Gradle 2.1 JBake 2.3.2 with Asciidoctor 1.5 News Incremental Java compilation landed in Gradle 2. Read more...

The SpringOne2GX 2014 conference is over, but you can see below more tweets and presentations from the second part of the conference, and the videos will be available later on on InfoQ. Apart from the excitement around Grails 3, Spring Boot, Groovy, and more, I’d like to highlight the very interesting feedback from Scott Hickey who comes back on 6 years of production usage of Groovy at Mutual of Omaha, saying “Groovy is a phenomenal language for businnes applications”, and that there’s nothing “better” on the JVM! Read more...

Direct live from SpringOne2GX, in Dallas! So you can expect some news and presentations from the show this week and the next, and certainly tons of tweets! Speaking of tweets from SpringOne2GX, you’ll notice the flurry of very positive and excited reactions regarding the upcoming Grails 3 release. In the release section, don’t miss the release of Gradle 2.1. Releases Gradle 2.1 released with community plugins, and incremental java compilation GVM 2. Read more...

After a long summer break, it’s high time we resume Groovy Weekly, and come back to our every-Tuesday agenda! Get ready for lots of content! If there were one particular item of news I’d like to highlight in this edition, that’s the news about the New York Times that is going to use Groovy and its Android support (in the upcoming Groovy 2.4), as well as RxJava, to revamp its Android application to make more “reactive”. Read more...

You probably remember Groovy and Gradle being selected in RebelLabs’ report as part of the 10 “kick-ass” technologies developers love? But I’m also happy to report that Groovy won the Geek Choice Award, showing how groovy Groovy is! GR8Conf US 2014 last week is delivering tons of great videos and materials from all the speakers that came to the conference, and I hope you’ll find time to watch a few. My personal highlight was the great Q&A talk by Scott Hickey and Jim McGill on looking back into 9 years of using Groovy at a big US insurance company. Read more...

Live from GR8Conf US 2014, in Minneapolis, MN, USA! The code samples and slides of presentations are already flowing and are listed below in the presentations section. Lots of great content and talks to learn from. Releases Andrés Almiray released Griffon 2.0.0-rc-1 live on stage at GR8Conf US 2014, along with the announcement of the new Griffon website Cédric Champeau announces the releases of Groovy 2.3.6 and Groovy 2.4.0-beta-2 Guillaume Laforge announced Groovy 2. Read more...

The news keep flowing even in the summer! It’s probably not new to you, my readers, but Groovy and Grails are kick-ass technologies, as reported by the RebelLabs report. And did you know that Groovy is now the default scripting technology in the popular ElasticSearch? Or used by Jenkins in its Job DSL? We even have rumors, with the potential acquisition of Groovy-powered SmartThings IoT platform by Samsung! We also have more videos available of presentations from GR8Conf Europe, to prepare yourself for those who are attending GR8Conf US next week! Read more...

The new Groovy website announced last week keeps on improving, thanks to your feedback and already many contributions through pull requests on Github! To wet your appetite for GR8Conf US 2014 at the end of the month, we also have more GR8Conf Europe 2014 videos published last week! Releases Groovy Grails ToolSuite 3.6.0 out with Groovy 2.3 and Grails 2.4 support on Eclipse 4.4 GrooScript 0.5.2 is out The Windows installer for Groovy 2. Read more...

Keywords for today: beta Groovy website, Gradle roadmap, GR8Conf presentations! It’s a launch day! The launch of the beta of the Groovy website, mentioned in the news section (and also a bug fix release with Groovy 2.3.4). In the article section, you’ll find the link to Hans Dockter’s latest post on the Gradle forums which details what you can expect from future Gradle versions, and it’s very promising: think performance, parallelization, caching, sharing and tooling! Read more...

A big week for the Gradle team as they’ve just announced the final release of Gradle 2.0! It’s of course a very important milestone for the project, and it’s nice to see that the migration to Groovy 2.3 as a baseline. There are also some updates to Grails, Ratpack, and also the launch of the Spring IO platform that you might be interested in. You’ll see also a list of job postings for Netflix, where Groovy is deployed at a very large scale and who are always seeking Groovy talents. Read more...