Scala Blogs

	JavaScript and Scala: Good Parts and Bad Jan 21, 2012 \| Author: Graham Lea \| Source: Graham Hacking Scala I've just finished reading "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford. It's a fantastic book, mostly because it's incredibly concise, elaborating only the details that experienced programmers should need to understand the true form of Java ... [read more]
	Scala IDE for Eclipse: Roadmap! Jan 20, 2012 \| Author: dotta \| Source: The Scala Programming Language The Scala IDE team have announced the roadmap for the future release of the Scala IDE for Eclipse! This is what they said: [read more]
	Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released! Jan 19, 2012 \| Author: admin \| Source: The Scala Programming Language A milestone release for Scala is now available. This release is cut directly from current development and is not intended for production environments, but is a great chance to try out the up and coming features for Scala 2.10.0. [read more]
	Scala Days - Keynotes and Call for Speakers Jan 18, 2012 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language Scala Days 2012 shapes up! You will have top-notch keynote speakers, great research papers, a magical evening event and now we call for stimulating speakers to give session talks. If you have used Scala in an innovative commercial application, cr ... [read more]
	Updates to Scala/Spring/Hibernate/Maven Webapp Jan 9, 2012 \| Author: Graham Lea \| Source: Graham Hacking Scala One of the projects I maintain is a public domain code base on GitHub called Scala-Spring-Hibernate-Maven-Webapp. The repository contains source code for kickstarting your own webapp project using the latest versions of Scala, Spring Web, Hiberna ... [read more]
	That was the year that was … 2011. Jan 5, 2012 \| Author: Stephen \| Source: You shot the invisible swordsman. If 2011 was anything, it was the year I submitted my PhD dissertation, and my dissertation was my focus essentially throughout. Long days and hard work involving coding, verifying outputs, making last-minute awkward bug fixes, reading text, re-re ... [read more]
	SodaTest 0.2.1 Released Dec 21, 2011 \| Author: Graham Lea \| Source: Graham Hacking Scala I've just released the second milestone of SodaTest, the spreadsheet-driven integration testing framework. [read more]
	Scala IDE V2.0 for Eclipse Released! Dec 20, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language The Scala IDE team have announce the release of V2.0! This is what they said:- [read more]
	Scala Events Dec 19, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language Northeast Scala Symposium [read more]
	Will Typesafe Address Scala Criticisms? Dec 9, 2011 \| Author: Graham Lea \| Source: Graham Hacking Scala If you've been paying attention to the Scala corner of the web over the last week, you'll no doubt have heard something about Yammer - an enterprise-focussed social network - switching from Scala back to Java. [read more]
	Scala Days 2012 - Live! Dec 8, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language The Scala Days 2012 web site is live! Now you can keep up-to-date with everything about the Scala Days conference and the Barbican centre in London. More information will be added as things take shape, the program, the speakers, accommodation and ... [read more]
	IPv4 Address Space Utilisation Dec 6, 2011 \| Author: Stephen \| Source: You shot the invisible swordsman. I read earlier another warning from the EC that businesses should be looking to deploy IPv6 as soon as possible. We know, of course, that this is important: IANA ran out of /8 blocks almost a year ago, and APNIC’s allocation ran dry soon after. T ... [read more]
	Heroku supports Play!, Akka and Scala Dec 1, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language A short while ago Heroku announced support for Scala using the Typesafe stack. Two weeks ago Typesafe extended their stack with Play!, a simple to use web framework, and here Scott Clasen, Engineer at Heroku explains how they came to partner with ... [read more]
	Scala - Popularity and Use Grow Nov 25, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language The number of leading companies that are successfully using Scala for critical business applications has grown enormously. It is common knowledge that more companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, the Guardian, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, ... [read more]
	Scala in the Browser? Nov 21, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language Grzegorz Kossakowski, now studying for a Masters with the Scala team at EPFL, has been working on a research project to enable Scala to be used directly to write browser applications. In this interview he explains how he has made it possible for ... [read more]
	Scala Days 2012, Call for Papers Nov 16, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language Scala Days 2012 is coming, April 17-18 at the Barbican, London, UK. Now is the time to submit workshop research papers and for everyone to reserve the dates in their calendar. [read more]
	Eclipse IDE for Scala RC1 for Scala 2.9 and 2.8 is out Nov 15, 2011 \| Author: admin \| Source: The Scala Programming Language The Scala IDE developers write: "It's been a long journey! The Scala IDE for Eclipse has reached the first release candidate for version 2.0, and if no critical bugs are reported, this will be the 2.0 release! Thanks everyone for the patience ... [read more]
	University of Glasgow LaTeX dissertation style Nov 9, 2011 \| Author: Stephen \| Source: You shot the invisible swordsman. When I started to write my dissertation, there was no LaTeX style available that was compliant with the University guidelines. (For shame!) So, I made one: https://github.com/sdstrowes/Glasgow-Thesis-Template Share, fix, and feed back please! [read more]
	Word counts and caffeine logs Nov 4, 2011 \| Author: Stephen \| Source: You shot the invisible swordsman. I submitted my PhD dissertation at the start of this week. Dissertation writing is a long, slow process. Who knew? Broad stats, for interest: Number of SVN revisions: 682. The dissertation builds out to 163 sheets of A4. Of those: 11 are front ma ... [read more]
	Scala Documentation Repository at docs.scala-lang.org Launched! Oct 31, 2011 \| Author: heathermiller \| Source: The Scala Programming Language We're happy to announce the launch of the Scala Documentation repository, at http://docs.scala-lang.org. The Scala Documentation repository is meant to serve as a centralized home to grow and develop Scala documentation within, including: [read more]
	zeebox Launched! Oct 28, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language It is not often we have the opportunity to be right on the crest of a breaking technology wave, especially one built from the ground up with Scala. zeebox has just launched a site that brings the power and excitement of social networking like Fac ... [read more]
	Top 10 Reasons Java Programs Envy Scala Oct 26, 2011 \| Author: Graham Lea \| Source: Graham Hacking Scala I presented a talk at the 2nd meeting of the new ScalaSyd Meetup last night. I talked through the "Top 10 Reasons Java Programs Envy Scala" in an attempt to give Java developers a taste of some little things that could make them much more product ... [read more]
	Presenting at ScalaSyd, October 26 Oct 11, 2011 \| Author: Graham Lea \| Source: Graham Hacking Scala In two weeks' time I'll be presenting a talk at the recently-formed ScalaSyd Meetup. The title of the talk is "Top 10 Reasons that Java programs envy Scala"; the synopsis: "A whirlwind tour through 10 productivity-increasing features of Scala tha ... [read more]
	Scala on Heroku Oct 3, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language Heroku, the popular cloud services provider, have announced the availability of full support for Scala on their Cedar cloud platform. In a partnership with Typesafe, the Scala commercial support organisation, they are bringing easy scalable cloud ... [read more]
	Scala 2.8.2 final Sep 27, 2011 \| Author: admin \| Source: The Scala Programming Language The Scala Team is happy to announce the next maintenance release in our old 2.8.x series: Scala 2.8.2 final is available from our Download Page. This version is provided as a binary-compatible update to our previous Scala 2.8.x series; we recomme ... [read more]
	Scala LiftOff London Sep 27, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language If you are interested in Scala and web development then Scala LiftOff in London on the 13/14 October is the place to be. With a heavy focus on using Lift, the Scala web framework, well known experts will be explaining how you can get the best out ... [read more]
	Code Writers vs Code Creators Sep 24, 2011 \| Author: Graham Lea \| Source: Graham Hacking Scala It's occurred to me recently that one of the key turning points for a professional software developer is the realisation that you don't have to make do with the tools you've got - you can create your own tools. This is why 'The Pragmatic Programm ... [read more]
	The Scala Days 2011 Videos Sep 20, 2011 \| Author: bagwell \| Source: The Scala Programming Language Scala Days 2011 was a huge success. More talks, 60 plus, and participants, 280 plus, than ever before. Whether you attended the conference or would just like to catch up with what happened then the Scala Days 2011 Videos are a great place to go. ... [read more]
	Scala 2.8.2 RC3 Sep 20, 2011 \| Author: admin \| Source: The Scala Programming Language A new release candidate is available for the next maintenance release in our old 2.8.x series: Scala 2.8.2 RC3 is available from our Download Page. This release candidate includes a few additional fixes and improvements to the presentation compil ... [read more]
	Scala 2.8.2 RC2 Sep 8, 2011 \| Author: admin \| Source: The Scala Programming Language After backporting a few additional fixes, we are releasing a new release candidate for the next maintenance release in our old 2.8.x series: Scala 2.8.2 RC2 is now available from our Download Page. This release addresses some issues present in Sc ... [read more]