Groovy
▶ "Groovy State of the Union"
@glaforge GR8Conf keynote was live streamed and it is already posted in Youtube. How do I feel about Groovy's future after watching the talk? Reassured. He recaps the events that triggered the move into the Apache Foundation and he shouts a clear message We are here to stay.
You can check Groovy Sate of the Union slides too.
Groovy in Action Second Edition is out
I bought the MEAP edition but the finished PDF has been already release. The book has 915 pages. Wow! Needless to say, I've not read it yet. However I read the Database Programming with Groovy chapter this week for some work we had to do in our company and it helped us out big time.
Tip, you will find a GR8Conf promo code in the "Groovy Sate of the Union" video I posted before.
Spock
14 Spock examples that you should read
@ilopmar GR8Conf talk Testing with Spock: The logical choice is backed up by a Github repository where you could find an great set of Spock examples. I've linked directly to the test folder. Learn about Timeout, IgnoreIf and DataDriven tests with Spock. And yes, the old test is really cool.
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Grails
Grails - Beginnner Workshop
@JacobAae has published the slides of his GR8Conf Grails -Beginners Workshop.
It is a simple to follow Grails 3 Workshop. Bonus, he explains how to add bootstrap to your Grails 3 projects easily.
He even posted a 1.11Gb with Grails, Bootstrap, grails documentation, the demo app, IntellJ, slides.... No excuses; follow the workshop through!
Android / iOS
Android on Groovy
@saschaklein GR8Conf talk Android on Groovy follows last week Groovy Dev Weekly flavour. Lets use Groovy on Android! Inside you will find great comparisons between Java code and Groovy code on Android. They are pretty explanatory about how can Groovy simplify Android Development.
Moreover, It contains a brief introduction to SwissKnife. A Groovy library containing view injection and threading for Android using annotations.
Libraries
Geb for Testing your Grails Application
If you want to learn how to do functional testing, check out the @JacobAae GR8Conf talk slides. He does a good job explaining what is Geb and how to use pages and modules to keep you Geb tests maintainable. Moreover, he explains how to use it inside your Grails (2.x or 3.x) webapps.
Geb is really of interest to me because at work I do a lot of screenscraping.
The GR8Conf Issue
Last week issue I talked about Google IO 2015. Next Monday WWDC 2015 takes place. In the Groovy World the reference conference is GR8Conf. The Europe edition was hosted this week in Copenhagen. It celebrated its 7th edition. Amazing talk lineup which will probably feed this newsletter for a couple of months. Moreover, they even have their own conference beer! :-)
Fasten your seat belt because this issue is packed with GR8Conf goodies.
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