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Groovy Podcast, Episode 87 (S06E02), with Ken Kousen and Sergio del Amo Caballero
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-chuiz-1250fee News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem. Includes latest developments in Micronaut and Groovy, the return of Gr8Conf in Copenhagen later this year, a discussion about GitHub Copilot, and much more. Show notes at https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-87.asciidoc
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Spring’s queryForStream Method
During one of my recent Spring and Spring Boot training course, I talked about the three major ways to access relational data from Spring: Send already-worked-out SQL using the JdbcTemplate, Work with Hibernate by injecting the JPA EntityManager using the @PersistenceContext annotation, and Simply extend one of the Spring Data interfaces, like CrudRepository. I told my students how I always struggle […]
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Groovy Podcast, S06E01, ep. 86, hosted by Ken Kousen and Sergio del Amo
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yt6by-119741f News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem. Topics include the release of Groovy 4.0 and Micronaut 3.3.0, as well as discussions of recent blog posts, the move to Java 17, working with Spock, and people on the move. Show notes at https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast
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Groovy Podcast episode 85 (S05E05) with Sergio del Amo and Guillaume Laforge
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q8tak-11603dc News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem, hosted by Ken Kousen, Sergio del Amo, and Guillaume Laforge. We talked about the new Micronaut AOT module (7ms startup time!), the latest Grails 5.1 release, dealing with the log4J CVE problems, and a tribute to Stéphane Maldini, who left us all too soon. […]
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Groovy Podcast 84 (S05E04) with Sergio del Amo and Paul King
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jqvtd-112b50d News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem. This time with Sergio del Amo and Puneet Behl, including a deep dive into Grails 5 and Micronaut 3. Show notes: https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-84.asciidoc
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Groovy Podcast, S05E03, with Paul King
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c5c4t-11199c8 News and views from the Groovy programming language ecosystem, with Paul King, the head of the Groovy project! Topics include the upcoming Groovy 4 release, the IDE situation for Groovy, the recent Grails 5 release, the recent ApacheCon at Home conference, and more. Show notes at https://github.com/groovy-podcast/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-83.asciidoc
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Simple Demo of Gradle Parallel Tests
The maxParallelForks property runs test classes in parallel, but not individual tests in a class.
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Solving the Daily Jumble
Recently I decided to subscribe to my local newspaper (the Hartford Courant, pronounced current) again. That’s been valuable by itself, and brought some benefits I forgot about (like a comics page), but one of the unexpected side effects has been the Daily Jumble. The idea is to unscramble the clues to form words. All of […]
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Are you positive you tested positive?
If we ever hope to break out of our current pandemic isolation, we need tests to determine who has COVID-19 and who doesn’t. No test is perfect, however, which means any test is going to result in false positives, especially if you are trying to measure a very weak signal. The purpose of this post […]
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Why Use Mocks?
Testing A Simple Publisher/Subscriber System With Mockito One of the challenges I find when teaching Java testing with Mockito is that the docs, while complete, don’t motivate why you want to use mocks in the first place. This post includes a simple example to show why mocking frameworks are important and where they are useful. […]