Thanks to Cédric's suggestion, I'm now using FeedBurner to proxy my Atom news feed of my new blog.

If ever I'm changing blog software again, or want to change the URLs of my feed, etc, I won't have to bother you again to update your bookmarks or feed reader settings!

So here are the details again:

• New blog URL: http://glaforge.appspot.com
• Atom feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/glaforge

That should be the last time you really udpate :-)

This blog is moving to a new location. All the technical articles plus some others have been migrated to the new blog (written in Groovy with the Gaelyk framework). Will remain here essentially Stéphanie's articles

Make sure to update your bookmarks and feed readers:

• New blog address: http://glaforge.appspot.com
• New atom feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/glaforge

Thanks a lot for your attention, and sorry for the inconvenience!

UPDATE: Thanks to Cédric suggestion, I actually decided to use FeedBurner for my feed, instead of my own feed. So if ever I change my blog software or something, I won't have to ask you again to update your bookmark or feed reader settings.

Il n'y a pas énormément de conférences en France autour de notre beau métier informatique, en tout cas peu auxquelles je souhaite assister, mais il en est une que je ne voudrais râter pour rien au monde, c'est l'Université du SI, organisée par OCTO Technology.

Cette année encore, pour cette 4ème édition, il va y avoir du beau monde parmi les speakers et ceux qui feront les keynotes, et je crois que tous les geeks et les bosses parmis nous y trouveront leur compte, au travers de 4 tracks passionnantes et qui vous ouvriront les yeux sur notre metier et ses perspectives (comme l'indique le site) :

• Techniquement : cloud en pratique, virtuoses du code, Big Data, architectures événementielles, architectures mobiles, HTML5 vs propriétaire.
• Humainement : impacts sociétaux de l'IT, dynamique d�animation, facteurs humains, efficacité personnelle, transition vers l�agile et le Lean.
• Autrement : inspirations issues d�autres domaines (ex: sciences, architecture, médical), éditeurs de jeux vidéo, grands du Web, Big Mashups, DevOps.
• Prochainement : prospective, évolution de nos métiers par secteur, interfaces futuristes, informatique à la vitesse de la lumière, mariage du Web et de la TV.

Là où ça devient intéressant... (cf. le titre de cet article)... c'est qu'OCTO propose un tarif spécial "bloggers" : une poignée de places est à moitié prix ! Mais il faut très rapidement vous faire connaître, avant qu'elles ne soient prises ! Alors si vous êtes rapides, que vous souhaiter participer à l'USI 2011, et que vous m'écrivez à glaforge arobase gmail point com, vous aurez peut-être une chance de bénéficier du tarif à 1000 euros tout rond, au lieu des 1950 en standard.

Vite !!!!

The GR8Conf is back! A conference dedicated to Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, Spock and more! This second edition of the conference takes place in Copehagen, Denmark, again like last year. And it's solely dedicated to the Groovy Ecosystem, and all the GR8 technologies based on it.

Over two days, in a single track (to avoid missing important sessions because of too much choice), you'll hear about:

• the Groovy dynamic language for the JVM
• the Grails web application stack based on Spring, Tomcat and Hibernate
• the Griffon swing application framework for rich desktop applications
• the Gaelyk lightweight toolkit for easily developing and deploying small applications to Google App Engine
• the Gradle build solution system
• the GPars parallel library for Groovy

And some advanced talk on:

• how to use Grails for the mobile web
• how Grails works under the hood
• how we're working on Groovy's core system
• how to do advanced meta-programming with Groovy
• how to use IntelliJ IDEA to develop with those GR8 technologies

There will also be a pretty interesting case study, on how European Patent Office has leveraged the Groovy dynamic language on its platform, showing once again how Groovy is used for serious enterprise work.

As the agenda there's a lot of very rich content for everybody on all those projects, and all those presentations are done by the makers, leaders and experts of these projects themselves! To name a few of the speakers:

• Jochen Theodorou - Groovy Tech Lead
• Graeme Rocher - Grails Project Lead
• Andres Almiray - Griffon project lead
• Sébastien Blanc - Developer of a mobile Grails plugin
• Hubert K. Ikkink (Mr. HaKi) - the famous G&G blogger with tons of great tips
• Hamlet D'Arcy - Groovy committer
• Hans Dokter - the founder of Gradle
• Vaclav Pech - lead of the GPars project
• Philippe Delebarre - from the European Patent Office
• Søren Berg Glasius - the organizer of the conference
• Guillaume Laforge (yours truely) - Groovy Project Manager

With excellent content, star speakers, friendly sponsors, in a nice European location, you really can't afford missing this great event if you're interested in Groovy related technologies!

I'm looking forward to meeting you there, so please, register now!

The Groovy development team and SpringSource are very pleased to announce the final release of Groovy 1.7, the most popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM! After two betas and two release candidates, we're are happy to deliver this new and very important milestone to our ever growing user base.

Over the years, the Groovy project has managed to grow a community, but not only that, a very rich and active ecosystem of Groovy-related projects: the Grails web stack, the Griffon swing application framework, the Gant and Gradle build solutions, the Gaelyk lightweight toolkit for Google App Engine, the Gpars parallel system, the Easyb and Spock testing frameworks and the GMock mocking library, the CodeNarc and GMetrics quality tools, and many more! With all these initiatives, the world is even groovier and we're thankful these projects have helped us shape what Groovy is today.

Groovy 1.7 provides the following new major features and enhancements:

• Anonymous Inner Classes and Nested Classes, for more Java-friendliness
• Annotation enhancements, with the ability to put annotations on imports, packages and variable declarations)
• Grape enhancement (the Groovy module system)
• Power Asserts, for more readable and expressive assertions
• AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) enhancements with the AST Viewer and AST Builder, for easing the creation of AST transformations
• Various dependency upgrades (including the ASM bytecode library to get ready for the JSR-292 InvokeDynamic bytecode instructions)
• A rewrite of the GroovyScriptEngine for more flexibility and rapidity
• Several GroovyConsole enhancements, like line numbers, a new output view, and more
• Various SQL improvements, like batch updates and transaction support
• and many more enhancements!

You can learn more about all these features in the Groovy 1.7 release notes.

For further details, you can have a look at our JIRA release notes for some more details.

You can download Groovy in the download section of our website.

The Groovy development team would particularly thank all the users, contributors and committers who helped us all along to improve the quality and usefulness of the language and its APIs, as well as all those projects in the Groovy ecosystem who influenced us and inspired us.

We're offering our community this new release as a Christmas present, hoping you'll enjoy it as much as we did when working on it, and we wish you all a very Groovy Christmas, and all the best for the coming year!
Enjoy this new release, and stay tuned for all the upcoming improvements we'll bring you in the future: a more modular and even faster Groovy, additional abilities for more readable and expressive DSLs, and many more exciting features!