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 released
  • Grails 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