Looking forward to ChurConf.com in Auckland in a few weeks time. It will be great to catch up with friends old and new, and some great content! Also delighted to be presenting on @groovy.apache.org a few days earlier at the Auckland JVM Group: www.meetup.com/auckland-jug... #groovylang #ai

Not sure whether Community Over Code is worth attending? Take a look at some highlights from this year's Community Over Code North America to see for yourself: buff.ly/U4KvfQP #opensource #CommunityOverCode

Groovy 5 adds new extension methods to File and Path classes. You can now easily get the extension and base name for a File or Path: blog.mrhaki.com/2025/09/groo... #Groovy #Groovy5

Updated slides for my talk on why to use @groovy.apache.org in 2025: speakerdeck.com/paulk/groovy... #groovylang #communityovercode @apache.org

Updated slides for my talk on using 7 graph databases (5 ASF related) and 3 GraphQL libraries with @groovy.apache.org to analyze Olympic record results: speakerdeck.com/paulk/groovy... #groovylang #communityovercode @apache.org

Updated slides on using Apache Wayang with @groovy.apache.org and Apache Spark for cross-platform machine learning and deep learning: speakerdeck.com/paulk/groovy... #groovylang #tensorflow #spark @apache.org

Updated slides for my talk on creating a wordle-like game in @groovy.apache.org using multiple generations of machine learning technologies: speakerdeck.com/paulk/wordle... #groovylang #communityovercode #machinelearning #ai #pytorch #tensorflow @apache.org

Version 5.0.1 of @groovy.apache.org is available for download with 11 fixes and improvements! Thanks to all involved! Keep the feedback coming! groovy.apache.org/download.html groovy-lang.org/releasenotes... #groovylang @apache.org

Slides for my JavaZone talk on creating a wordle-like game in Groovy using multiple generations of machine learning technologies: speakerdeck.com/paulk/wordle... #groovylang @groovy.apache.org #machinelearning #ai #pytorch #tensorflow #javazone

Now updated for Wayang 1.1.0 and Groovy 5.0.0!

‪Version 5.0.0 of @groovy.apache.org is available for download with 600+ fixes and improvements since Groovy 4! Thanks to all involved! This new version is the best version yet to run Groovy on JDKs 11-25! groovy.apache.org/download.html groovy-lang.org/releasenotes... #groovylang @apache.org

Version 5.0.0-rc-1 of @groovy.apache.org is available for download with 9 fixes and improvements since the last beta! Thanks to all involved! This new version is the best version yet to run Groovy on JDKs 11-25! groovy.apache.org/download.html groovy-lang.org/releasenotes... #groovylang @apache.org

Versions 5.0.0-beta-2 (upcoming) & 4.0.28 (latest stable) of @groovy.apache.org are available for download with 41 & 19 fixes and improvements respectively! Thanks to all involved! groovy.apache.org/download.html Groovy 5 release notes: groovy-lang.org/releasenotes... #groovylang @apache.org

Versions 5.0.0-beta-1 (upcoming), 4.0.27 (latest stable) & 3.0.25 (previous stable) of @groovy.apache.org are available for download with 87, 32 & 10 fixes and improvements respectively! Thanks to all involved! groovy.apache.org/download.html groovy-lang.org/releasenotes... #groovylang @apache.org

Gatherers4j just made a new release, let's explore using it with Groovy: groovy.apache.org/blog/explori... @groovy.apache.org #groovylang #gatherers4j CC: @todd.ginsberg.com

Exploring Whisky flavor profiles using two new Groovy-powered dataframe libraries: Underdog and Matrix. groovy.apache.org/blog/whisky-... @groovy.apache.org #ApacheECharts #ApacheCommons #matrix #underdog #groovylang @apache.org

Slides for my GraphDB Sydney Meetup presentation: speakerdeck.com/paulk/groovy... @apachetinkerpop #apacheage #apachehugegraph @neo4j.com @antgroup.bsky.social @orientdb.bsky.social #ArcadeDB #groovy-lang @groovy.apache.org #GraphQL

Applications for travel assistance to #CommunityOverCode North America (Minneapolis) are now being accepted until June 14, 2025. If you're hoping to attend this event but are unable to for financial reasons, the ASF's Travel Assistance Committee may be able to help! Learn more: buff.ly/7vWwZIi

Less than 2 weeks to go for the call for presentations for Community Over Code 2025 NA (Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 11-14, 2025)! I am chairing the Apache Groovy track (including Grails, Geb, Gradle, Spock and all topics from the Gr8 ecosystem) but there are many tracks.

I am happy to be speaking at the graphdb-sydney meetup later this month about graph databases & @groovy.apache.org. If you are around, I hope to see you there. www.meetup.com/graphdb-sydn... The talk looks at a common case study using 7 different graph databases plus a touch of GraphQL and Groovy.

Gatherers4j does a reasonable job:

Using JDK 24 Gatherers with Apache Groovy: groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-... (plus handling similar scenarios with collections for JDK8+ users) #groovylang #gatherers #streams @apache.org

Apache NetBeans 25 is now available for download. To see what's new in NetBeans 25, visit: buff.ly/6BmvooO Download now: buff.ly/4E7rFjh

Looking forward to all your Groovy, Grails, and other GR8 submissions!

‪Using Property Graph Databases with @groovy.apache.org @apachetinkerpop.bsky.social #apachehugegraph #apacheage @neo4j.bsky.social @orientdb.bsky.social @arcadedb.bsky.social #tugraph 🥇🥈🥉 groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-... Updated for ArcadeDB 25.3.1, Neo4J 2025.02.0, OrientDB 3.2.38 @apache.org

📅 Save the date! #CommunityOverCode Asia Coming to Beijing in July 2025 📅 Nadia Jiang, co-chair of Community Over Code Asia and PMC Member of Apache Answer gives more details about the event, including the Call for Proposals in this blog --> buff.ly/4KGKOOK

Hoping to attend #CommunityOverCode but unable to for financial reasons? The ASF's Travel Assistance Committee may be able to help! Applications are now being accepted for Community Over Code Asia (Beijing, China | July 25-27, 2025). Apply by May 9 buff.ly/8mYimLv

Versions 4.0.26 (latest stable) & 3.0.24 (previous stable) of Apache Groovy are available for download with 10 & 9 fixes and improvements respectively! Thanks to all involved! groovy.apache.org/download.html #groovylang

Classifying Iris Flowers with @ApacheGroovy, ApacheWayang and TensorFlow: groovy.apache.org/blog/wayang-... #groovylang #deeplearning #tensorflow @apache.org Platform-agnostic deep learning.

Apache Groovy 4.0.25 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/3F2ZVIW Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM. #opensource

Using Apache NetBeans with @ApacheGroovy groovy.apache.org/blog/netbeans #ApacheCommons #numbers_fractions @apache.org #groovylang

Applications are now open for Travel Assistance to go to Community Over Code Asia in Beijing, China on July 25-27. Potential applicants, please read the webpage fully before applying. If you have questions, email the TAC team. https://buff.ly/4hVF88y #CommunityOverCode #opensource

The Apache Wayang project is known for cross-platform data processing. They just released 1.0.0 (congrats! 🥳) & now do cross-platform machine learning! Let's cluster whisky profiles with the new ML4all functionality & Apache Groovy: groovy.apache.org/blog/using-g... #groovylang @apache.org

Groovy and Text Similarity algorithms: string metric similarity, phonetic similarity, semantic similarity groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-... @apache.org #ApacheCommonsCodec #ApacheCommonsText #djl (deepjavalibrary) #EclipseDL4J #PyTorch #TensorFlow #LLM #BERT #groovylang #wordleonsteroids

📅 Save the Date 📅 Community Over Code North America 2025 has been announced! Where: Minneapolis, MN (USA) When: September 11-14, 2025 Read more about #CommunityOverCode --> https://buff.ly/4jQx36S

Spock 2.4-M5 has been released. This milestone release is full of exiting new features. Please try it and provide feedback. Check the release notes to see what else is new spockframework.org/spock/docs/2...

Using Property Graph Databases with @apachegroovy.bsky.social #TheASF #apacheage #apachehugegraph #apachetinkerpop #groovylang 🥇🥈🥉 groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-... Updated for TuGraph 4.5.1, HugeGraph 1.5.0, ArcadeDB 24.11.1, Gremlin 3.7.3, Neo4J 5.26.0, OrientDB 3.2.36

In honor of the first Optaplanner release as part of Apache KIE (incubating), I updated the Apache Groovy simple optimisation blog post for Optaplanner 10.0.0 and Timefold 1.16.0. #groovylang #TheASF #KIECommunity #ApacheCommonsMath #Hipparchus #Choco t.co/W3uK1R010k

Using the embedded search capabilities of #ApacheLucene with #ApacheGroovy #groovylang: groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-...