Schalk Cronjé is a freelance product-delivery coach, technology consultant and trainer. His A-skill profile means he works with organisations at both business and technical levels. He keeps technically fit by participating in a variety of open-source projects. He is the maintainer of Groovy-VFS and also maintains or contributes to a number of Gradle plugins including Asciidoctor, GradleTest and JRuby.
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Talks I've Given
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Idiomatic Gradle—Recipes for Plugin Authors
Featuring Schalk Cronjé
Allow Schalk to take you on a journey through some very useful idioms that can be applied when writing your next plugin for Gradle, keep your DSLs readable, and maintain wide Gradle version compatibility. From the obvious to the bizarre – they will all be there.
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Gradle: Building & Deploying in a Polyglot World
Featuring Schalk Cronjé
Gradle has become a very populor build tool for JVM development, especially after becoming the primary way of building Android apps.
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Groovy VFS
Featuring Schalk Cronjé
Groovy VFS is a humble DSL that makes the Apache VFS library really useful. Copying from and to remote FTP, SFTP & HTTP sites become one line operations. Moving documents across servers are just as simple. Need to download an archive file from a website and unpack it? That is simple too.
ggx groovy grails gradle vsf