Groovy Podcast Ep. 2

We bring you the usual news from the Groovy ecosystem plus we have an interview with two ladies behind the GR8 Ladies and GR8 Workshops initiatives.

Show notes

To get involved with GR8 Ladies, just head to their landing page - it has links to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and GitHub

Grails 2.4 releasedGrails Maven plugin has better multi-project support and supports different versions of Grails

Grails 3 will be based on Spring Boot and Gradle

Learn about the dangers of a super fast JSON parser

Netflix are re-architecting Asgard using Spring Boot micro services

Grooscript (the Groovy -> Javascript tool) reaches version 0.5

The Grails mailing lists are now closed - use StackOverflow for questions on how to use Grails and the new Google Group for discussions

As Vagrant now supports Windows guest VMs, it's good to know you can get hold of free, time-limited ones from Microsoft

Spring One 2GX preliminary schedule is up

GR8 Conf EU is next week, 2-4 June

Gradle Summit: 12-13 June

GR8Conf US: 28-29 July