This week in #Scala (02/11/2012)

Welcome to another weekly roundup of Scala content!  There’s lots to share this week, so let’s leave the preamble out and dive right in… (I know, I know, you were looking forward to more of my hilarious jokes. Next week my friend, I promise.)

New Stuff

• At SpringOne2GX, a Spring Scala project was announced with the goal “to make it easier to use the Spring framework in Scala”
  • The project has been updated this past week so do keep with the source and read their wiki!
• Typesafe unveiled the mystery judge of their developer contest which ends 30th November 2012
• A Scala language proposal for “Boolean pattern matching expressions” has been put forward
• Version 0.4.0 of eventsourced  - an event-sourcing library for Akka - was released
• IntelliJ released Scala plugin builds that are compatible with the latest IDEA release

Old Stuff

This week I offer you a presentation given by Ted Neward at the 2012 JAX conference in San Francisco, CA:

• Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Scala <- Sorry, you still need to spare an hour

Upcoming Events

• 5/11/2012 – Effective Actors in Akka, Scala Meet-up, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 19/11/2012 to 20/11/2012 - Scala eXchange 2012 with Skills Matter, London <- I’ll be there!

Blogs & Tutorials

• Oliver White wrote: A Pragmatic Guide to Scala Adoption in Your Java Organization
  • It’s naughty I know, but this is actually from last week! Somehow I missed it
• The Akka team added a post entitled  ”Cluster Death Watch“   in their 2.1 Spotlight series and we’re told that “more exciting posts are in the pipeline”.
• Rod Hilton discovered that Scala, like most new things, deserves a second chance to truly appreciate it’s value: “Scala Second Impressions“
• An excellent video of a presentation given by Typesafe’s Jan Christopher Vogt on the Slick DB library was posted by the Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts
• Alvin Alexander shared some fun he had with Scala reduceLeft
• Jan Grape shared his “learnings” (yeah, find that in a dictionary!) from a new technology stack
• Twitter went to Facebook to share their insights on systems programming. Of course, they couldn’t help but mention Scala. Check out their slides.  I wonder if that might prise them away from PHP?
• James Roper compared building scalable systems in Java with Scala
• Tomasz Nurkiewicz introduces you to Akka by sending your first message (look ma!) and followed it up with “Request and Response – discovering Akka“
• Pascal Voitot wrote part three of his series on the Play 2.1 JSON API
• Konrad Malawski blogged about “Scala powered streaming migrations in MongoDB on millions of records” <- Wow!

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That’s all for now.  Have a great week and remember you can get in touch with me directly via email or message me on twitter (@ChrisCundill) with any Scala news, events or content.