Groovy
GrooCSS
GrooCSS let's you code your CSS in Groovy, using a natural Groovy DSL with optional code completion. Like Less but without inventing a new language.
Created by @adamldavis. Again, Groovy DSL capabilities shining.
News
Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source
We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. Open source developers build tools for the rest of us. GitHub Sponsors is a new tool to help them succeed, too.
This coincides with Friends of Apache Groovy and SDKMAN joining Open Collective during the past months. I hope some of the projects in the Groovy ecosystem (e.g. Geb, spock....) apply to this initiative since integrating sponsorship capabilities directly in Github, a place where most open source lives, may lower the barrier to become a sponsor. Also, it may be easier to discover directly through Github UI that a project can be financially supported which in turn may lead to a healthier open source landscape.
After seeing open source from the insight for the past 2.5 years, I think many open source projects, which many important private projects rely on, are maintained by people waking up early and coding away on their pijamas. Anything we can do to make it more maintainable is worth trying.
Tools
Artillery - a modern load testing toolkit
Last week while attending a GR8Conf talk by @jimmibk, I saw Artilley in action.
Artillery is a modern, powerful & easy-to-use load testing and functional testing toolkit. Use it to ship scalable backends, APIs & services that stay performant & resilient under high load.
We are happily using Gatlin in my current project but I have bookmarked Artillery for future inspection.
Publishing Tools
JBake Workshop
I suggested @marioggar that it would be great if he could prepare a Workshop for Greach 2019 about building a static website for an open source project with Jbake. The site should feature:
- Documentation in Asciidoc.
- Build with Gradle.
- Make Java docs public with ease.
- Easy publish to Github pages.
I actually manage to attend Mario’s workshop. It was one of the few Greach’s slots which I could join and I loved it.
JBake, Asciidoctor, Groovy and Friends for Making a University Course website
@JacobAae brings together many Grails related technologies (GSP, asset-pipeline ...) to a JBake site for a University course website.
Listen to Groovy Calamari Podcast E13. I interviewed Jacob and we talked about evangelizing Groovy related technologies into the university
Currently, my blog sergiodelamo.es is powered by Wordpress. However, I may move it to a static site generator and I have been peaking into Jbake. Thus, you will find several Jbake links in this issue.
Sergio del Amo