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