Groovy Podcast Ep. 45

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

With Ken Kousen in Marlborough, CT and Ryan Vanderwerf in Round Rock, Texas.

News items

Groovy 2.4.11 with bug fixes and updates to documentation. (Groovy 2.4.10 also released)
Grails 3.2.9 with bug fixes. Other releases: 3.2.8, 2.5.6, 3.1.16.
Spock 1.1 new release
GQL, a Groovy library for GraphQL A set of Groovy DSLs and AST transformations built on top of GraphQL-java.
Gradle Site Plugin Useful, real-world example for creating Gradle plugins
http-builder-ng updated with enhanced exception handling and a new user guide.
Geb web site has a revised web site
GSP GSP is now a separate project.
Shadow plugin 2.0.0 new release of the Shadow plugin by John Engelman
Goodtimes Java 8 Date/Time API enhancements for Groovy
Test your Java applications with Spock Slides from Iván López Martin presentation at Javaday Istanbul 2017; code at https://github.com/ilopmar/javadayistanbul-2017-spock
Grails keynote Graeme Rocher keynote from Greach about the future of Grails
Greach 2017 Playlist of presentations from Greach 2017.
TDD with Spock, Groovy and Java Blog post by Radosław Skupmik about test-driven development.
Spock: Up and Running New book by Rob Fletcher, published by O'Reilly. All chapters now complete.
Preview of Groovy 3 Blog post by Sergio del Amo, which is a translation of Daniel Sun's original post in Chinese.
Business Insider article "Learn any of these 16 programming languages and you'll always have a job". Questionable article, but at least Groovy is included.