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Gaelyk 2.0 is released

2013-05-16T23:00:00Z

This is with great pleasure that the Gaelyk team announces the release of Gaelyk 2.0, the lightweight toolkit for developing applications on Google App Engine with the Groovy dynamic language.

For the impatient, go directly to the download page!

It's been long in the making, and there are quite a lot of new features to speak about, like the migration to Groovy 2.1 and GAE 1.8, the new Search DSL, improvements to the URL routing system, various performance optimizations, and more.

Please be sure to have a look at the list of <...

Creating a new project with Gradle

2013-04-17T15:36:00Z

Since I started using Gradle for building my projects, as soon as I needed to create a brand new project from scratch, I wished that Gradle guided my hand and created the right directory structure and minimal Gradle build script.

A bit less than two years ago, I was inspired by Dierk's gist providing a basic build that provided two tasks, one for creating the directory layout, and the other one to create the Gradle wrapper. I turned that gist into a blog post of my own, with just minor version updates, as I wanted to remember how to do that the next time I'd create a new Gradle-based project.

But we were not the only ones missing this capability in Gradle!

More recently, Marcin leveraged the ...

Contribute a dedicated CI server for Groovy

2013-04-16T09:45:00Z

The Groovy team is always looking at ways to further improve and encourage the collaboration and contributions from the community.

Today, the we are looking for a sponsor for a dedicated server that would host our new Continuous Integration server. If you or your company is interested in helping Groovy by contributing hardware and/or hosting, please contact us.

GR8Conf Europe takes place in the beautiful city of Copenhagen in Denmark. It's where all the talented and cool Groovy ecosystem folks meet, and spread the love about their technologies, including Groovy, Grails, Gradle, Spock, GPars, and more.

I'll be speaking about the latest developments on the Groovy 2.x branch, and what our plans are going forward. You can also have a look at the preliminary agenda published on the GR8Conf website, to see familiar names like Jürgen Höller, Venkat Subramaniam, Dierk König, Graeme Rocher, Burt Beckwith, Mr Haki, Luke Daley, Russel Winder... You're sure to find some great content delivered b...

Groovy 2.1 is released

2013-01-25T07:45:00Z

Here's my announcement for the Groovy 2.1 release, and be sure to check out the full release notes of the release!

The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.0.
With over 1.7 million downloads in 2012, a strong ecosystem, Groovy continues its development and adoption, refines existing features and evolves new ones.

In this new release, Groovy 2.1:
offers full support for the JDK 7 “invoke dynamic” bytecode instruction and API,
L'autre jour sur Facebook, je suis tombé sur cette liste de "life-hacks", dont certains sont vraiment malins... et parmi eux, il y avait une recette de brownie dans un mug. Je l'ai retrouvée là, mais j'ai également trouvé d'autres variantes, comme

First beta of Groovy 2.1 released

2012-12-21T13:42:00Z

Since the world didn't seem to end today, it is with great pleasure that we bring under your Christmas tree the following presents: the release of Groovy 2.1.0-beta-1 and Groovy 2.0.6.

Groovy 2.0.6 is a bug fix release for our Groovy 2.0.X line, whereas Groovy 2.1.0-beta-1 contains new features.

You can download Groovy at the usual location:
Václav Pech just announced the final release of GPars 1.0, the concurrency and parallel toolkit for Groovy and Java.

We'll bundle GPars 1.0 in the Groovy 2.1 distribution coming very soon!

Let me quote some of the key changes and enhancements of this release (quoting from the "what's new" section of the user guide):
Asynchronous functions
Allowed for delayed and explicit thread pool assignment strategies for asynchron...

Groovy 2.0 and beyond at Groovy Grails eXchange

2012-12-19T09:33:00Z
Last week, I had the pleasure to attend and keynote at the 5th edition of the Groovy / Grails eXchange conference, in London. I presented a talk around the new features of Groovy 2.0 and the upcoming 2.1 release, as well as a few words about what's coming up next.

You can watch the video online, as SkillsMatter, the organizer of the conference, have put all the presentations online in record time!

And you can have a look at the slides hosted on Speakerdeck below:

InfoQ's readers JVM languages research

2012-11-28T08:48:00Z
InfoQ is running a reader-driven survey titled "What's your next JVM language".

Among the candidates to be ranked, you'll find: