Groovy Podcast Ep. 42

Friday, February 10, 2017

With Ken Kousen in Marlborough, CT and Baruch Sadogursky in Sunnyvale, CA.

Reminder: Groovy Community Slack

Grails 3.2.6 released with minor enhancements and bug fixes
Gretty 1.4.1 New release of awesome Gradle plugin for running web-apps on jetty and tomcat
Grails Quickcasts YouTube playlist from OCI
Deploy a Ratpack App on Google App Engine Flex Blog post by Guillaume Laforge
Using REACT with Grails 3 Video of talk by Zak Klein at St. Louis Groovy and Grails Meetup, Feb 1, 2017
Groovy is the New Black article about using Groovy in JMeter
Run Geb tests on Grails Run Grails Geb functional tests with multiple browsers; a new Grails Guide
Groovy Succinctly New ebook by Duncan Dickinson, available in Kindle and pdf format
Kotlin in Action Deal of the day for Feb 10 (along with Akka in Action and Clojure in Action)
One free ticket to Greach Sergio del Amo is giving away one free ticket to Greach. Tweet about Groovy Calamari with hashtag #groovylang winner drawn by end of Feb.
Macro Groovy documentation explains what "macro method" is and how to use it for the AST transformations development
Groovy macro methods proposal explains the future of the macro system in Groovy
Groovy pattern matching because we need it
Human-readable pattern matching because Groovy is not Scala
Great examples of macro methods by @touchez-du-bois. Spock-like data tables, do while, newTrait, etc...