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. … Read More
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
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
Groovy/Grails – Pivotal == Opportunity
The news broke this morning that Pivotal plans to withdraw its financial support from the Groovy and Grails projects by the end of March, 2015. The heads of both projects, Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher, have each blogged about it, with their typical grace, thanking Pivotal for the opportunity and assuring everybody that both projects… Read More
Unit testing Grails controllers, revisited
I’ve been neglecting my blog, which I blame on a combination of using twitter and being on a book project. More about those later. In the meantime, I’ve recently been working on some Grails projects and found an issue with unit testing controllers. I’m now on Grails 1.3.5, and I’m trying hard to do unit… Read More
Using a codec in a Grails unit test
This is a small issue, but I encountered it and found a solution on the mailing lists, so I thought I’d document it here. I was demonstrating a trivial Grails application in class today and decided to unit test it. The app has a single controller, called WelcomeController: [sourcecode language=”groovy”] class WelcomeController { def index… Read More
SpringOne 2GX final thoughts
I wound up too busy to maintain my daily reports, but here are a couple of items I want to highlight as important take-aways from SpringOne 2GX. Rather than just recap sessions or dole out marketing-type praise, I’m going to focus on some things I learned that I didn’t necessarily expect. A lot of people… Read More
SpringOne 2GX Day 0
I’m at the SpringOne2GX conference (http://www.springone2gx.com) in New Orleans this week. Monday (which they’re calling day 1 but I’m referring to here as day 0) consisted only of registration plus a reception and finally a keynote by Rod Johnson. As a frequent NFJS attendee, the “reception” was a bit of a culture shock. One of… Read More
Humor lost on Grails Podcast
During the last Grails Podcast, Glen and Sven mentioned how they’d received feedback from me on the previous podcast, part two of their interview with Scott Davis. Instead of reading my feedback verbatim, they made the (possibly wise) decision to just summarize it. The only problem I have with their decision is that I went… Read More
Minor bug in Grails selenium plugin
There is a minor bug in the selenium plugin for Grails. It has been discussed on the mailing list, but I thought I would also document it here. I’m using Grails 1.0.3 with version 0.4 of the selenium plugin, which wraps selenium core version 0.8.3. If you install the plugin and try to run the… Read More