upgraded dependencies to latest
initial upgrade of gradle to 1.5 and scala to 2.10.1
Merge branch 'master' into newversions
Merge pull request #24 from ralph-tice/newversions

Updating gradle to 1.5 and scala to 2.10.1
merge in changes from upstream gradle-template project
Merge pull request #25 from coryb/master

merge changes from gradle-template project