With Ken Kousen (Marlborough, CT) and Baruch Sadogursky (JFrog in CA).
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Do we finally have a proper replacement for the HttpBuilder?! HTTP Requests
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Grails Diary from Jacob Mikkelsen contains many items for the last couple weeks. They include:
- Ratpack releases 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3; the big one is 1.3.0, the others are quick bug fixes and a Netty upgrade. See https://ratpack.io/versions/1.3.0 for details. The Learning Ratpack book is based on 1.3.0.
- Ratpack tutorial code and slides presented by Juan Vazquez a the Omaha Java Users group meeting.
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Grails 3.0.17 and Grails 3.1.6 both released. The latter now uses GORM 5.0.5 which supports Hibernate 5.1.
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JSON views docs are now available for Grails.
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Grails team blog at OCI now available. Latest post points to the Slack channel (sign up at http://slack-signup.grails.org/)
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Gradle 2.13 released post to the Gradle forum, largely focused on performance. They estimate as much as 25% improvement during configuration and execution phases in their testing.
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Gradle newsletter describes the changes in 2.13, plus the addition of composite builds, which allow you to combine multiple Gradle builds.
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Gradle lint plugin a.k.a. the bloody enterprise plugin
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GPars website now has all the docs, links to the user guide, reference docs, GitHub repo, and more. Site appears to be designed with asciidoctor, too.
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Groovy Calamari -- latest issue has links to blog posts and articles that include:
- Continuous integration with Grails
- Continuous deployment with Gradle and Docker
- Gradle performance as a feature, a blog post by Cedric Champeau
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Excluding Gradle tasks using a name pattern by Ken Kousen does what it says
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Learning Ratpack and Giving Back, blog post by Dan Woods @danveloper. All royalties from the book Learning Ratpack will go to the Gr8Ladies organization.
- GR8Conf EU - 1st -> 3rd Jun The agenda is published
- GR8Conf US - 29th -> 31st Jul
- G3 Summit - 28th Nov -> 1st Dec
- JavaOne CFP is open, submit Groovy!
- No Fluff Just Stuff for the website hosting
- The Grails diary for so much of the regular news
- The Groovy Calamary for tons of news as well!
- Twitter: @groovypodcast
- Google+: https://plus.google.com/112706418002827266912/posts
- 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