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Show notes for Episode 72 (S03E04)

Thursday, April 4, 2019 with Ken Kousen @kenkousen in Marborough, CT, and Jenn Strater @codeJENNerator in Berlin, Germany.

Releases

• Groovy Eclipse 3.3.0 Support for Groovy 3.0-alpha-4 and 2.5.6, as well as Eclipse 4.11 (2019-03).

• GMavenPlus 1.6.3, a rewrite of GMaven, a Maven plugin for Groovy

• Asciidoctor 2.0.0 as a new major version

• Grails 4.0.0 Milestone 2

• Micronaut 1.1.0 RC2

• Gradle Build Tool 5.3

  • Feature variants

  • Gradle module metadata 1.0

  • .1 fixes some bugs for multi project builds

  • new Logo

• Also, Gradle Enterprise 2019.1 works with Maven builds

Blogs and other community news

• Greach recap

• Javaland

• Daniel Sun was recognized by Google for his contributions. Congrats Daniel!

• Groovy swag is available for purchase on RedBubble.

• Groovy DSL Workshop notes by Vladimír Orany (@musketyr), from Greach 2019

• Groovy Calamari Issue 154 discusses Micronaut 1.1 RC1 and a lot about RabbitMQ and Hazelcast Cache Integration

• Groovy Regular Expressions - The Definitive Guide with a syntax summary and performance guide

• Groovy Enjoying the Grooviest Rise Among Programming Languages article from Dice based on the Feb update of the TIOBE Index, where Groovy jumped from 49th to 19th place.

• Guide to I/O in Groovy by Baeldung

• Introduction to Traits in Groovy by Baeldung

• Introducing Grails 4: Upgrades and New Features OCI webinar by James Kleeh, recorded 27 March

• tweet about Micronaut presentation slides by Graeme Rocher from the talks he gave at DevNexus

  • Micronaut Deep Dive

  • Micronaut AOT

  • Micronaut + Grails

• Groovy Calamari Podcast has a new home page

What Jenn’s been up to

• small events mostly. some travel but more coming up:

  • NYC / Atlanta for CloudBees Days (maybe more)

  • Spring IO in Barcelona

  • Then GR8Conf 🎉

GR8Conf Updates

• Diversity Tickets

• Registration is Open. Still in EarlyBird. Or ask Jenn for a discount code ;)

• Still looking for more sponsors

• Discount code for listeners only (not available in the show notes)

Friends of Groovy

• * Friends of Apache Groovy

• Getting started with organizing

• Thanks to everyone who’s contributed so far

• Looking forward to our first submission: work for the Groovy Eclipse Plugin

Conferences

• Gr8conf EU, May 27 - 29, 2019

Thank you

• No Fluff Just Stuff for the website hosting

• The Groovy Calamari for tons of news as well!

Follow the podcast

• Twitter: @groovypodcast

• Home page: Groovy podcast home page

Brought to you by

• Baruch Sadogursky twitter: @jbaruch, w: http://www.jfrog.com

• Ken Kousen twitter: @kenkousen, w: http://www.kousenit.com

• sometimes Jenn Strater twitter: @codeJENNerator, w: https://www.jennstrater.com