The features I've written about so far are the ones that I use really often and that I find make the biggest difference for me when I use IntelliJ IDEA. Some of them are a bit mundane, but when I have to code without them I often get the feeling ... [read more]

Recently we have seen a heated debate on whether Scala is too complicated for normal programmers or whether it’s in fact a rather simple language to program in. Here are two representative blogposts of the debate. The comments on the posts are al ... [read more]

Last year over 80 developers had a great time at the Scala LiftOff in San Francisco. Since then there has been a tremendous growth in the world wide Lift/Scala community and lots of excitement with the releases of Lift 2.0 and Scala 2.8.0. Scala ... [read more]

Skills Matter and Xebia will be providing a series of Scala training sessions starting in October and initially located in London, Amsterdam and Paris. In response to the growing demand Scala courses are being made available through local, well e ... [read more]

Scala 2.8 has been released 4 weeks ago. Following our poll on the main page of the site, over 500 projects (more than 50%) have been converted to 2.8 already or the migration will be completed very soon. Now that this major version update is don ... [read more]

With IntelliJ IDEA's Buffer History or "Paste From History" (Ctrl-Shift-V), you can copy multiple snippets and have all of them available for pasting later on. There's no special trick to copy things into the Buffer History - everything copied go ... [read more]

Have you ever noticed that when you try to autocomplete something in Eclipse, it shows you half of the code in your classpath? It'll show you classes - both in your package and not - methods and fields - regardless of whether their use would crea ... [read more]

The Lift community seems to be on a roll. They announced Lift 2.0 and just recently Novell announced Pulse based on Lift, the Scala Web Framework. Other companies are benefiting from Lift too, Foursquare and parts of Xerox have adopted Lift as th ... [read more]

There’s been a lot of discussion on Apple’s Facetime product, and some questions asked over whether Facetime uses the traditional phone network at all. The answer appears to be: No, not at all. There is no traditional call setup if you initiate a ... [read more]

After a lot of heavy use of the remote actors libraries in Scala, I noticed that something seemed to be leaking memory. Unable to see anything obvious which might have been leaking, I fired up a profiler to investigate. The short version of this ... [read more]

On the 20th May the Guardian announced that their "Open Platform", an API to access the vast repository of Guardian media with over a million articles, video clips, photographs and audio tracks, was "open for business". With 36 million people mak ... [read more]

After finding an issue in RC4, we are immediately issuing a new release candidate: the new Scala 2.8.0 RC5 is now available for testing from our Download Page. The Scala 2.8.0 codebase includes a huge number of bug fixes with respect to 2.7.7, an ... [read more]

Novell has just announced Pulse, an exciting and much anticipated cloud-based, real-time collaboration platform for the enterprise. It provides a collaboration environment that is secure and draws on the best of instant messaging, document sharin ... [read more]

The LinkedIn Web site was launched in 2003 and is now the largest professional networking site in the world with more than 65 million members, representing 200 countries and executives from every Fortune 500 company. [read more]

Thatcham Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre provides data to vehicle manufacturers with the aim of containing or reducing the cost of motor insurance claims, whilst maintaining safety and quality standards. They research efficient, safe, cost ... [read more]