Groovy Podcast S02E03 (52)

Thursday, February 1, 2018

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 (same as last podcast)
Grails 3.3.2 is the latest stable version. Don't forget to try the Application Forge (same as last podcast)
Gradle 4.5 is the latest stable version, available at https://gradle.org/install
CodeNarc 1.1 released Jan 15, 2018 with 9 new rules and various updates
Groovy Eclipse 2.9.2 released Jan 9 with support for the latest Groovy releases and Eclipse versions, as well as Java 9 and JUnit 5
JUnit 5 vs Spock feature showdown Blog post by Ben Muschko
Cassandra Load Testing with Groovy by BlazeMeter
How to Compile Groovy Before Java in a Gradle Build Blog post by Dan Vega
Grails Sketches One hour, free online webinars to introduce technologies around Grails development
Gr8DI Mentorship Program supports university students in various cities in Cameroon. Program organized by Jen Strater (@codeJENNerator)

@jbaruch is looking for Developer Advocate at JFrog! Lots of fun and great tech, including @groovylang!

Building a GORM/GraphQL App with React and Apollo Build a Grails app and use GORM's GraphQL support to search React app using Apollo
Use docker to provide external services to your Grails app Learn how to use a PostgreSQL database in your Grails application with a Docker container
Grails as a Docker Container Learn how to distribute your Grails application as a Docker container

Greach March 16 - 17, 2018, Madrid, Spain (workshop day on March 15)
GR8Conf EU May 30 - June 1, 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark
GR8Conf US July 25 - 27, 2018, Minneapolis, MN. Call for papers open until March 13.