ep-39.md

Groovy Podcast Ep. 39

Thursday, December 22, 2016

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

Reminder: Groovy Community Slack

Groovy community Slack Everything in the Groovy community slack is archived at http://groovy-community.slackarchive.io/

News items

• Grails 3.2.4 Last Grails release of the year; mostly bug fixes

• Reminder: In Gradle 3.2, cancelling a build with Ctrl-C does not kill the Gradle daemon (tweet by @gradle)

• Extremely fast builds with Gradle 3 slides and video by Cédric Champeau from his @virtualJUG talk

• Introducing Ersatz A new mock HTTP server library, from the same people who are working on the HttpBuilder-NG project

• HTTP Builder NG for Groovy and Java blog post about the "new" project (18 Sep 2016)

• G3 Summit talks:

  • Fields Plugin - Deep Dive YouTube recording of presentation by Søren Glasius

  • Tour de Plugin also by Søren Glasius

  • Get to Know Grails also by Søren Glasius

  • Taking advantage of Groovy annotations slides and code from Iván López (@ilopmar)

  • Dockerize your Grails! also by Iván López

  • Creating applications with Grails, Angular JS and Spring Security by Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal

  • Apache Groovy: The Awesome Parts by Paul King

• Gradle Support in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 Delegate build and run to Gradle, and composite builds now supported (one of a series of screencasts by the excellent Trisha Gee (@trisha_gee))

• Using multiple browsers in a Geb functional test blog post by Craig Atkinson (now a newly-hired employee of Gradle, Inc)

• Gradle Goodness: Run Task Ignoring Up-to-date Checks yet another quick and easy post by Mr Haki

• SDKMan outdated command SDKman 5.3.0 adds the "outdated" command, which upgrades all outdated candidates at once

• Grails Guides:

• Sending Server Sent Events with Grails (using RxJava)

• Building a REST application with MongoDB

• Building a REST application with GORM and Hibernate 5

• Using the React Profile

• New Parrot parser for Groovy being developed by Daniel Sun supports Elvis assignment (?=)

• GradleTest Gradle plugin for testing the compatibility of a Gradle plugin against a list of Gradle releases, by Schalk Cronjé

• Groovy Calamari latest issue

• Grails domain classes and enums

• Extension modules

• AST transformations (several talks)

• 200 plugins now available for Grails 3 (tweet by Grails Framework, @grailsframework)

• Analyzing half a million Gradle build files Guillaume Laforge uses Google BigQuery to analyze Gradle build files hosted at GitHub

• Peter Ledbrook reminds us that you can set the default package for Grails artifacts using "create-app org.example.my-app" (tweet by the inimitable @pledbrook)

Conferences

• Gr8conf IN, New Delhi, India, January 2017
• Greach, Madrid, Spain, Mar 30 - Apr 1, 2017
• Gr8conf EU, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31 - June 2, 2017

Thank you

• No Fluff Just Stuff for the website hosting
• The Grails diary for so much of the regular news
• The Groovy Calamari for tons of news as well!

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Brought to you by

• Peter Ledbrook - t: @pledbrook, w: http://www.cacoethes.co.uk/
• Baruch Sadogursky - t: @jbaruch, w: http://www.jfrog.com
• Ken Kousen -t: @kenkousen, w: http://www.kousenit.com