A full complement of research papers is in, many practical technical talks have already been proposed and the participant registration is already growing. Scala Days is a unique opportunity for you to meet the Scala development team, meet Martin ... [read more]

I've got lots of things to be Thankful for in my business life this year. [read more]

Folks... more information on Beginning Scala, the Scala book I'm working on. It's available for pre-order from APress's web site. Additionally, draft PDFs are available via APress's Alpha program. [read more]

After many months of hard work, the Scala Team is proud to release the first beta of the much-awaited new Scala 2.8! Scala 2.8.0 Beta 1 is now available from our Download Page. It includes a huge number of bug fixes with respect to 2.7.7, and man ... [read more]

The past couple of years have seen some extended debates on whether Scala is a functional language. On the one hand, Scala offers essentially all programming constructs typically associated with functional programming and a lot of Scala code is p ... [read more]

The Scala Days 2010 event is getting closer, and we are now busy organizing all the details. We received many compelling submissions for the First Scala Workshop, and all the signs point to a great upcoming event. We just opened the new Scala Day ... [read more]

Those long dark winter nights need filling, so you made a New Year resolution to learn a new language, maybe Scala, or improve your programming skill. A worthy idea and to help you, here is a set of puzzles to challenge the professional Scala pr ... [read more]

A new release of Akka is available. Akka is an Actors-based framework that, in the author's words, enables "Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors". Akka has both a Scala API and a Java API. [read more]

I really want to be liking Ubuntu, but the 8.10 release is once again a disaster. There's a nasty freeze bug on my ThinkPads (T61p and X300) when I use WiFi. The machines just randomly lock up. It took about 3 months before 8.04 was stable. I ... [read more]

We'll be hosting the next meeting of PDXScala (the Portland, Oregon Scala users group) this Thursday, Dec 17th, at AboutUs. We will be starting at 7PM and will be featuring a talk by Trenton Lipscomb on mutable and immutable data structures in Sc ... [read more]

A Scala Dublin Enthusiasts group has just been started. Eager to hear from anyone interested in signing up! ...Even if just an excuse to go to the pub... I mean "network".. :-| [read more]

Using his most remarkable powers of deduction, my good friend Holmes had ascertained the precise time and location where the Melbourne Scala User Group was to have its final assemblage for the year. At six-thirty precisely, on Monday the twenty-t ... [read more]

The Scala Workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. The first workshop will be held at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday 15 April 2010, as part of a planned S ... [read more]

A new stable release of Scala is ready, Scala 2.7.7.final includes fixes and refactorings for the Actors library, improvements to the Scala IDE for Eclipse, as well as additional bug fixes. The new release can be obtained, as usual, from our Down ... [read more]

Lift recently made the shift away from Scala Actors to a more generic Actor solution that allows for the use of Lift's lightweight Actors as well as Akka Actors. [read more]