Groovy Weekly #66
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! What’s next for the rest of the year?
With the Greach conference just over, there’s a lot of great and groovy content available in the presentations section! Take your time to have a look at this impressive lineup and interesting material.
Speaking of conferences, rush to buy early bird tickets for GR8Conf Europe! You only have till tomorrow!
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.
Releases
Spock Subjects Collaborators Extension 1.1.0 released by Marcin Grzejszczak
Document Builder 0.3.1 released by Craig Burke with spacing and positioning fixes
Gretty 1.2.1 released with WebSocket support
Articles
Ken Kousen writes about kicking AST and taking names
MrHaki's Greach conference report
Jochen Theodorou on being a paid OSS developer for Groovy
Interviews
Cédric Champeau interviewed by Voxxed during the Devoxx France conference: "Groovy is everybody's language to evolve"
News
Mailing-list posts
If you or your company is interested in helping or taking over the development of the Groovy Eclipse plugin, please tell us!
Presentations
Devoxx France 2015
Guillaume Laforge presented Groovy with Style
Cédric Champeau, Guillaume Laforge and Frédéric Simon from JFrog presented the Groovy release process
Take control of your build with Gradle plugins, presented at Devoxx France 2015 by Cédric Champeau and Eyal Lezmy
Greach Conference
GrooScript in action at Greach by Jorge Franco Leza
Overview of the Groovy AST Transformers: More than meets the eye! by Iván López at Greach 2015
Markus Schlichting brought documentation to life with Asciidoctor and Gradle
Burt Beckwith hacks the Grails Spring Security 2.0 plugin
Russel Winder talked about GPars remoting and shares his slides and associated code, at Greach Conference
Alonso Torres talked about Decathlon Sport Meeting application based on Grails
Use Groovy and Grails in your Spring Boot projects by Fátima Casaú at Greach 2015
MrHaki shares the code of his Greach conference Grails Goodness talk
Jeff Beck on Cassandra and Grails
Securing Ratpack by Jeff Beck
Jenn Strater on no nonsense NoSQL
Jenn Strater guided a discussion about teaching and diversity in the Groovy community
Marco Vermeulen on GVM
DSL'ing your Groovy by Alonso Torres
Infrastructure automation with Gradle and Puppet by Andrey Adamovich
Steve Pember covers Groovy options for reactive applications
Idiomatic Gradle plugin writing by Schalk Cronjé at Greach 2015
Henrique Lobo presented about how to obtain high productivity and quality with Groovy and Grails (in Portuguese)
Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber, Groovy and Grails by Marco Vermeulen, recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014
Tweets
The Grails Framework is announcing having found a new home at OCI
A cool Groovy T-Shirt at Greach conference
Schalk Cronjé draws GrooScript in a nutshell
Schalk Cronjé draws GVM in a nutshell from Marco Vermeulen Greach presentation
Iván López says that only the "real" developers create AST transformations using emacs
A new GVM logo in the works by Alexander Klein?
Andrey Hihlovskiy on the pain of Java's parentheses and semicolons as the opposite of syntax sugar
Jonas Havers is impressed with Groovy's Markup Template Engine in combination with Spring Boot
The Groovy boys and JFrog are making the show on stage at Devoxx France 2015
Podcasts
Groovy podcast episode 10 is available
Code snippets
John Engelman shares a Gradle tip on how to apply a custom plugin on its own project
Tim Yates mixes the Document Builder and his ASCII image generator
Fernando Redondo shares the code of his Greach Spock workshop
Bruno Borges uses Ratpack in JavaScript with the Nashorn Maven executor
Jobs
Object Computing is looking for Groovy developers in Saint-Louis, USA
Events
GR8Conf Europe early bird tickets ending on Wednesday, be fast!
Tomas Lin collected the links to the slides and code of all the Greach 2015 conference presentations
Browse the Greach 2015 conference pictures