I’m happy to an­nounce the first stable ver­sion of vertx-lang-typescript. The lib­rary adds sup­port for (the all-new) TypeScript 1.6 to (the also all-new) Vert.x 3.1 or higher.

The new ver­sion of the Gradle plug­in gradle-down­load-task 2.0.0 has just been re­leased. The plug­in provides a Download task that dis­plays pro­gress in­form­a­tion while down­load­ing files, just like Gradle does when it fetches an ar­ti­fact from a re­pos­it­ory.

Today Win­dows 10 was fi­nally avail­able on my laptop. I star­ted the up­grade pro­cess but after a couple of minutes it said it had failed due to er­ror code 80240020—whatever that means.

Ver­sion 2.5 of bson4­jack­son has just been re­leased. bson4­jack­son adds sup­port for BSON, a bin­ary rep­res­ent­a­tion of JSON, to the Jack­son JSON pro­cessor.

Vert.x is a toolkit for build­ing re­act­ive ap­plic­a­tions on the Java Vir­tual Ma­chine. The pro­ject main­tain­ers are cur­rently work­ing hard to get the new ver­sion 3.0 out. Tim Fox, the ori­ginal cre­ator of Vert.x and one of its core de­velopers, was re­cently look­ing for someone to re­design the Vert.x web­site. I offered to take over the job! I con­sider this an op­por­tun­ity to give something back to the great Vert.x com­munity!

Today I’m very pleased to an­nounce the new design of my web­site! I put a lot of ef­fort into mak­ing it clean and fea­ture-rich at the same time. My goal was to re­duce the num­ber of dis­tract­ing ele­ments while keep­ing the func­tion­al­ity of the old site.