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Scala Days - Shaping Up!
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]
Foursquare move to Scala/Lift
Foursquare is a fast growing service that back in July 2009 both the Washington Post and Mashable were tipping as a potential "breakout hit" or "next Twitter". Foursquare provides a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game th ... [read more]
Thanks
I've got lots of things to be Thankful for in my business life this year. [read more]
Lift 0.10 is released
Folks, [read more]
Beginning Scala is available on APress Alpha
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]
Announcing Beginning Scala
I am very excited to announce that I am writing Beginning Scala and it will be published by APress. [read more]
Scala 2.8.0 Beta 1
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]
Scala Track at JAX London 2010
JAX is a great forum to learn about the latest technologies and meet knowlegable experts in the industry This year JAX has dedicated a day to the growing Scala community. For those of you in the UK or planning to be there, JAX takes place from 22 ... [read more]
A Postfunctional Language
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 Community Rocks
There is nothing like success to attract people to a community and the Scala community has been more successful than most. [read more]
Scala Days Website – Call for Speakers
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]
Play, Roo and a little of Django
I start my own development and consulting startup-one-man-army company, a risky move on this times, but I hope that will generate profits in this year and in the nexts. Weapons and choices As developers, all we have a set of weapons to defeat d ... [read more]
Puzzlers for Winter Nights
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]
Google Acquires AppJet
Google is boosting the development of Wave by adding the people who developed the highly successful EtherPad and its underlying AppJet web framework using Scala. EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in ... [read more]
Akka 0.6 is released
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]
Lift, Goat Rodeo and Such
It's been almost three years since my Web Framework Manifesto.  In those three years, I've founded the Lift Web Framework project, we've shipped Lift 1.0, I've seen a fair number of projects built with Lift and I've had the honor to interact ... [read more]
Ubunu 8.10: Another buggy release
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]
Ubuntu released 8.10 knowing there was a nasty defect
I had a rant about Ubuntu 8.10 being a buggy release. Turns out that the Canonical people knew about the defect and release Intrepid anyway. The problem impacts about 10% of modern laptops... ones with the most common Intel WiFi chipset. The d ... [read more]
ANN: PDXScala Meeting, Thursday, Dec 17th
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]
In defense of DHH & the Rails comminity
No, my machine was not hacked. Yes, I do believe that DHH and the Rails community has done far more to advance web development than the Apache Software Foundation. I radically disagree with J Aaron Farr's post comparing the two. [read more]
Scala Enthusiasts Dublin (Ireland)
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]
Happy 3rd Anniversay
Wow, it's been 3 years I've been in Scala-land [read more]
The Melbourne Scala User Group and the Scandal of the Disappearing Pint
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]
ANN: Portland Scala User Group Meeting - Wed Nov 18th
PDXScala, the Portland, Oregon Scala users group, has recently formed and will be holding an informal gathering Wednesday, Nov 18th, at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub on Hawthorne Blvd. More details, including a map, are available here. [read more]
The First Scala Workshop — Scala Days 2010
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]
The Scala Shop!
A new resource is available for all the Scala enthusiasts: the Scala Shop! With a great assortment of Scala-branded shirts, mugs, hats, buttons, stickers, and other items, you will certainly find something appropriate for all of your Scala mercha ... [read more]
Scala 2.7.7 final
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]
ScalaTest 1.0 Released
Bill Venners, President of Artima has announced the availability of ScalaTest 1.0, an open source application for concisely creating test code for Java platform based applications that can run on multiple processor cores for parallel testing. [read more]
Migrating from Scala Actors to Lift Actors
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]
Scala 2.7.7 RC2
The new release candidate Scala 2.7.7.RC2 is now available for testing. This release includes fixes and refactorings for the Actors library, a few improvements to the Scala IDE for Eclipse, as well as additional bug fixes. You can obtain this rel ... [read more]