This week in #Scala (05/04/2012)

Welcome to another week in #Scala. We’re a day early this week as we’ve got a long Easter Bank Holiday weekend from tomorrow!

New Stuff

Scala IDE for Eclipse 2.0.1 RC02. The only change with respect to 2.0.1 RC1 is the bundled Scala, which is now Scala 2.9.2-RC2.

sbt-dropbox-plugin 0.1.0, a plug-in for SBT that integrates with the Dropbox API to automatically upload build artifacts from within sbt.

sbt-scalashim 0.1.0, a plug-in for sbt to generate Scala shim like sys.error.

sbt-assembly 0.7.4, a plug-in for SBT that creates a single jar of your project including all of its dependencies.

Malakov – A Markov Chain library for Scala.

Blogs and tutorials

Check out the SIP process and current status – The committee decides collectively, but Martin Odersky reserves the final say if there is a disagreement
Play project lead Guillaume Bort (@guillaumebort) clarifies the situation with Play 2.0 and Play 1.2.x
Alexander Podkhalyuzin has blogged about the recent changes to completion in the Intellij IDEA Scala plugin
Check out this two part video tutorial on Scala’s Type System: part 1 & part 2
Great post on the Akka team blog: 50 million messages per second – on a single machine
Functional thinking: Functional design patterns, Part 2 by Neal Ford (@neal4d)
Translation (Simplification) of “Monads are just Monoids in the Category of Endofunctors”
Play 2 – Some People Don’t Seem to Realise What They Have by Steve Chaloner (@steve_objectify)
Play framework 2 quicktip: Scala console by Sebastian Scarano
Check out this list of 76 Akka aplications
Scala’s Delimited Continuations – powerful construct by Raymond Tay (@RaymondTayBL)
The all-new Play Module Repository by Steve Chaloner (@steve_objectify)

Have a great Easter weekend and as usual feel free to drop me a mail or message @markglh on twitter with any Scala news!