Groovy
7 Resources for Groovy Developers
Alex Ivanovs shares 7 links to start your groovy journey. I discovered Groovy Koans; small exercises in the form of unit tests, designed to get Java developers up to speed on Groovy
Groovy Hackaton - 29 November 2015
29 November 2015 Shoptimix (my company) organises a Groovy Hackaton in Google Campus Madrid. I will love to see you there coding something cool.
Click the link, fill the registration form and win the hackaton!
â–¶ A Groovy journey in Open Source land by Guillaume Laforge
@glaforge talk's title does not tell a lie. Watch it and review what a journey have been so far!.
I specially like that he does not avoid the famous Scala quote, which I have heard myself being used to troll groovy.
Griffon
â–¶ All your desktop apps are belong to Griffon
@aalmiray GR8Conf talk's video has been published. This talk does not focus on Griffon capabilities to create Desktop apps. Instead it shows how the Griffon project uses other ecosystem pieces (Gradle Asciidoctor, Lazybones ...).
If you have a big multi project infrastructure, please watch this talk. You will learn a lot about Gradle in a multi project build (challenges working with JDK 1.7 and JDK 1.8, how to generate documentation which includes production code and thus stays in sync, jacoco for a root project etc)
Libraries
â–¶ Geb for testing your Grails Application
A while ago I linked to @JacobAae's slides from his Geb for testing your Grails Application talk at GR8Conf. The talk's video have been published to GR8Conf Youtube channel. If it was worth the link just for the slides, double worth it for the video.
â–¶ Grooscript in Action
@jfrancoleza talk video at GR8Conf is out. I agree with Jorge that more logic is moving to the client wether we like it or not. Grooscript allows you to use Groovy to generate Javascript. If you are working in a small company if may allow your programmers to jump from server to client with more ease.
Checkout the slides here
Some videos of GR8Conf and Devoxx have been published. I've watched some and this issue highlights the reasons why you should watch them too.
Groovy Calamari