Groovy Podcast S02E02 (51)

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

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

News items

Groovy 2.4.13 is the latest stable version. Groovy 2.5.0-beta-2, 2.6.0-alpha-2, and 3.0.0-alpha-1 are all available at https://groovy-lang.org/download.html
Grails 3.3.2 is the latest stable version. Don't forget to try the Application Forge
Gradle 4.4 is the latest stable version, available at https://gradle.org/install
Spock Reports v1.4.0 generates test reports in any desired format
Geb 2.0 Marcin Erdmann announced the new major version, which now requires Java 8 due to upgrade to 3.x line of WebDriver. See the Book of Geb, http://www.gebish.org/manual/snapshot/#2-0
Groovy 2018 Roadmap ComputerWorld article discusses new features and versions of Groovy coming in 2018
@glaforge is now a Java Champion, along with @antoine_sd, @javajudd, @kenkousen, @kito99, @vlad_mihalcea, @leomrlima, @net0pyr, @shelajev, @rgransberger, @rmehmandarov, @Sander_Mak, @SeanMiPhillips
JavaOne - How Languages Influence Each Other Blog post by Guillaume Laforge about his session of the same name at JavaOne, including slides
Pacing in JMeter with Groovy by BlazeMeter
Adding a "lite" Groovy web console to a Grails war Blog post by Bert Beckwith on how to add a web-based console similar to the console plugin to a WAR
Advent of Code Groovy participants include @javazquez and @mittie
Transform Collection using collectEntries @mrhaki is back with a typically simple but useful demo

@jbaruch is looking for Developer Advocate at JFrog! Lots of fun and great tech, including @groovylang!
Lego Job looking for Java, but much of their infrastructure (based in Denmark) is Groovy based, including Geb, Spock, and more

Grails YourKit Profiling Learn how to profile memory and CPU on a Grails application using the YourKit Java Profiler

Greach March 16 - 17, 2018, Madrid, Spain (workshop day on March 15). Call for papers open until 15 January
GR8Conf EU May 30 - June 1, 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark. Call for papers open until 31 January