Groovy Podcast Ep. 46

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

With Ken Kousen in Marlborough, CT and Baruch Sadogursky in Sunnyvale, CA.

News items

Gradle 4.0 RC3 Latest release candidate for the upcoming Gradle 4.0
Groovy 2.5 beta Beta release for the upcoming Groovy 2.5
Griffon 2.11 latest release of Griffon with many improvements
How to Speed Up Your Slow Gradle Builds Blog post by Josh Burton, focused on Android builds, based on talk from Google I/O
Gradle Project Properties First issue of a new newsletter by Andres Almiray.
Using JFrog Artifactory for Gradle's remote cache – take an advantage of your universal artifact repository to cache your Gradle builds.
Groovy: The Awesome Parts Updated slide deck by Paul King after Gr8Conf in Copenhagen
Getting Groovy with Google Home Slides from Gr8conf talk by Ryan Vanderwerf
Google Home Guide New Grails Guide, also by Ryan Vanderwerf, related to the talk.
GroovyFX Slides from the Gr8conf talk by Sasha Klein
Mastering Async in Ratpack Materials from Danny Hyun from his Gr8conf talk.
Spock: Up and Running Book by Rob Fletcher, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Jexler Groovy framework for starting/stopping Groovy scripts as services and enabling them to react to events of their choice
Goodtimes Java 8 Date/Time API enhancements for Groovy
Spock-Android Library for running Spock tests on Android, by Andrew Reitz
Groovy Android Plugin Latest release of the Groovy plugin for Android, also by Andrew Reitz