It took us a while to get it finished, but I assure you it was well worth the wait, and Groovy in Action, 2nd edition, is real! I just received my copies this morning! Congrats to my fellow co-authors, and in particular to Dierk and Paul for their patience and dedication to this project, without whom the book would have never gone through its print stage!

It’s been a busy and intense week here at Copenhagen for GR8Conf Europe 2015! Great interactions and discussions with the Groovy community, and flawless organization. I had the chance to present three talks this year, and I’m embedding my slides below. First of all, I’ve given the usual Groovy keynote, with a Groovy state of the union. Later on, I gave a talk on Groovy style! With interesting tips’n tricks, programming style advice. Read more...

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! Read more...

GR8Conf Europe 2015 is literally around the corner, as the conference will start next week in Copenhagen! I’m really excited to be joining the usual flock of Groovy afictionados and talk all things Groovy. Speaking of conferences, lots of new videos and accompanying slide decks have been released, so there are hours of binge watching ahead! By now, I think I can stop reminding you about the move of Groovy from Codehaus to the Apache Software Foundation? Read more...

Last week, Codehaus has gone the way of the dodo. The lights are switching off. A page is turning. So please remember 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 Apache Git repository is now the new mainline, but you can contribute pull requests on the new Apache Groovy Github mirror. Read more...

Groovy Weekly skipped a beat as I was very busy: I was very fortunate to spend my last week in California for various meetings, plus being a keynote speaker at JFrog’s SwampUp conference in Napa Valley. I had the chance to speak again about the Groovy release process and its history (based on my recent Devoxx talk). Congrats to the Gradle team for releasing Gradle 2.4 with much faster builds! Read more...

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. Read more...

No big focus this week in the editorial, but as in the previous edition, I’d like to remind you about the following 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. Read more...

I had the pleasure of presenting 3 talks at Devoxx France last week (plus the Cast Codeurs podcast live recording), and I wanted to share with you the slides of those presentations. The Groovy release process With Cédric Champeau and Frédéric Simon Groovy with style Machine Learning introduction In French, with Didier Girard

We’re only mid April but what a year it’s been so far! From Groovy & Grails’ loss of funding, leading Grails to a new home at Object Computing Inc. and Groovy at the Apache Software Foundation, to Guillaume Laforge joining Restlet and Cédric joining GradleWare. Against all odds, Groovy released its 2.4 version with the Android support, and the big 3.0 release of Grails saw the light of day. And on another personal note… I’ve finished my first marathon! Read more...