Welcome to another week in #Scala. Or maybe that should be half-week in Scala since the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations extended our weekend to Tuesday.. Hmm.. Well, wherever you are and however long your upcoming weekend is, we’ve a fair amount to keep you busy with . Enjoy!
New Stuff
scoobi 0.4.0 is a productivity library for writing Hadoop jobs in Scala.
specs2 1.11 can now create markup files from specifications!
json-lenses is a library to query and update JSON data in Scala
Blog
- Knolx Session: Introducing Scala by Meetu Maltiar (@meetumaltiar) is a set of slides going into the use of sbt, Scala, Scala collections and ScalaTest
- Better CLI option parsing in Scala
- Joshua Suereth (@jsuereth) talks on Scala best practices in Effective Scala.
- Crazy Scala Combinator Parser by Christian Baranowski (@tux2323)
- Scalaz Airbrake Service is a Scala client for the Airbrake Notifications API written using Scalaz IO and actors.
- Matt Raible (@mraible) discusses some of his experiences in Upgrading to Play 2: Anorm and Testing
- For anyone using GigaSpaces, a new blog on integrating it with Scala has opened up at GigaSpaces XAP + Scala = GigaScala
- Last time we caught up with Rob Dickens, he was working on improving scala.Either. This time he’s offering an alternative: Okay/Reason extends Checked (a biased scala.Either)
- ScalaMock has just been rewritten “from the ground up” rewrite using macros! Check out the ScalaMock 3.0 Preview Release!
Don’t forget you can get in touch with myself or Mark via email or message us on twitter (@AmarettoAndCode or @markglh) with any Scala news you’ve come across or whipped up yourself!
