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Sep 1, 2010
| Author: Grazer
| Source: Graham Hacking Scala
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 ...
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Aug 28, 2010
| Author: Mario Arias
| Source: Neuronica
I’m an absolute fanboy of all JetBrains Products. And now I’ll write mi first impressions on IdeaX, the last (and yet not final) version of IntelliJ. First of all, this is BY FAR the best EAP (Early access program, by definition is more buggy tha ...
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Aug 26, 2010
| Author: odersky
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Aug 24, 2010
| Author: Grazer
| Source: Graham Hacking Scala
Intentional Programming or "Coding by Intention" is a style of code authoring where, rather than creating low-level parts of code (the building blocks) and then writing the higher-level code (the orchestrators) to bring it together afterwards, yo ...
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Aug 19, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Aug 18, 2010
| Author: odersky
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
Scala 2.8 has introduced a great number of improvements and additions. They are summarized in the release notes. Over the next weeks, we will publish a series of stories that explain the major new features one-by-one. We start this week with the ...
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Aug 17, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Aug 17, 2010
| Author: Grazer
| Source: Graham Hacking Scala
One of the things that really helps IntelliJ IDEA deliver on its claim of increased productivity is the JetBrains guys' fixation with keyboard navigation and one area where they've hit a home run with this is in navigating search results. The ide ...
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Aug 10, 2010
| Author: odersky
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Aug 10, 2010
| Author: Grazer
| Source: Graham Hacking Scala
One of the most common things I do when coding is to copy or cut a single line. The JetBrains guys, having realised this, have made it really easy to do: If you have nothing selected in IntelliJ IDEA and you press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-X, it will copy o ...
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Aug 6, 2010
| Author: Grazer
| Source: Graham Hacking Scala
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 ...
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Aug 2, 2010
| Author: Stephen
| Source: You shot the invisible swordsman.
Phew. The last couple of months have been hectic, albeit manageably so. My primary goal was hitting the 30th July deadline for submitting a paper to INFOCOM 2011, and that absorbed most of my time. (I submitted my final copy roughly 16 hours bef ...
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Aug 2, 2010
| Author: Grazer
| Source: Graham Hacking Scala
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 ...
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Jul 14, 2010
| Author: admin
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
It is finally here!! After many, many months of hard work, the Scala team is truly happy to announce the new, much-awaited stable release of Scala! The all-new Scala 2.8.0 final distribution is ready to be downloaded from our Download Page. The S ...
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Jul 1, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Jun 30, 2010
| Author: admin
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
One more step towards the much-awaited final release: Scala 2.8.0 RC7 is currently available for testing. You can find the new release candidate on our Download Page. The Scala 2.8.0 codebase includes a huge number of bug fixes with respect to 2. ...
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Jun 25, 2010
| Author: Stephen
| Source: You shot the invisible swordsman.
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 ...
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Jun 20, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
Klaus Havelund at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been using Scala to explore the use of DSLs in shuttle and other space mission launch control applications. Klaus, a Senior Research Scientist at JPL's Laboratory for Reliable Software ...
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Jun 18, 2010
| Author: Stephen
| Source: You shot the invisible swordsman.
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 ...
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Jun 17, 2010
| Author: admin
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
After a few more fixes, a new release candidate is ready! The new Scala 2.8.0 RC6 is available for testing: you can find it on our Download Page. The Scala 2.8.0 codebase includes a huge number of bug fixes with respect to 2.7.7, and an impressiv ...
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Jun 17, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Jun 14, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
Familiar tools and Libraries from the Java world are steadily being made available to Scala programmers by means of wrappers, Scala specific API's or how-to-use guides. Here are three that you may find useful. Spring, a popular framework is descr ...
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Jun 13, 2010
| Author: admin
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Jun 12, 2010
| Author: admin
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
We are now getting really close to the final release! The new release candidate, Scala 2.8.0 RC4, is currently available for testing: you can find it on our Download Page. The Scala 2.8.0 codebase includes a huge number of bug fixes with respect ...
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Jun 9, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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Jun 3, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
Two new NHS (National Health Service, UK) websites are driven by Scala. The first, for the NHS Foundation Trust Network, is a content-managed website which provides all the latest news and information for existing and prospective foundation trust ...
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May 29, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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.
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May 27, 2010
| Author: admin
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
A new release candidate is ready! Scala 2.8.0 RC3 is available for testing: you can find it on our Download Page. The Scala 2.8.0 codebase includes a huge number of bug fixes with respect to 2.7.7, and an impressive amount of new features. Read b ...
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May 27, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
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 ...
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May 25, 2010
| Author: bagwell
| Source: The Scala Programming Language
Martin Odersky, the inventor of the Scala programming language, will be talking at the London Scala User Group meeting Wednesday evening, 9 June, starting at 18:30. Andy Hicks, the organiser, says this is a rare opportunity for anyone interested ...
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