Groovy Weekly #52
First of all, let me wish you a very Groovy year! May 2015 fulfill all its promises, keep you healthy, bring joy and hapiness around! And of course, may it be filled with tons of bits of Groovy code!
Following up my plea for more stars on Github, we went from below 600 stars to beyond 1000! But we don’t need to stop there, so let’s keep starring and spreading the word!
Another thousand milestone reached with the 2000th news item delivered in Groovy Weekly this week!
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Releases
Grooscript 1.0-rc-1, be sure to test it before the final release!
Ratpack 0.9.12 released
Articles
All in Together: Android Studio, Gradle and Robolectric by Jason Atwood
Second part on Grails unique constraint optimization by Deepak Kumar Mittal
Presentations
Groovy for system administrators, by Dan Woods, recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014
News
GPars 1.3 will feature a new Asciidoctor-based GPars user guide
Jacob Aae Mikkelsen's Grails Diary week 51
This month in GUM
Mailing-list
Interesting dicussion on using Groovy for data science, as a killer application for Groovy
Code snippets
Cédric Champeau is musing with ideas of how to improve Groovy command-line interactions
Tweets
You can contribute to Grooscript by going through the Grooscript documentation
Andrew Reitz finds using unit testing Android more bearable with Groovy
The Groovy team builds Groovy on Continuous Integration with JDK 9 Jigsaw too
Russell Hart explains how to make authenticated user details available to Ratpack view model
Guillaume Laforge got a groovy electric guitar for Christmas... or was it for his daughter?
Events
10 languages in 10 minutes (including Groovy) at the Coder Consortium in Sacramento on February 5th