This week in #Scala (26/01/2013)

Welcome to another edition of #ThisWeekInScala.  Just a few days ago, @b_thuillier tweeted:

@b_thuillier: demain je dis au revoir #PHP et bonjour #Scala

I couldn’t agree more! Although I would say; “pourquoi pas aujourd’hui ?”

Right, enough French.  Let’s get back to English, and, more importantly, the Scala content I’ve gleaned this week…

New Stuff

• slick 1.0.0-RC2 has been released and now has Oracle and DB2 support through extension packages
  • The slick documentation has become a lot more complete for RC2
• Speaking of documentation, you can now get the latest Akka docs in EPUB format
• sbt 0.12.2 has been releasedand is already on homebrew
  • 0.13 is now in the works!
• Orr Sella got in touch to say he’s released another Scala library (having previously released tumblr4s) in the form of an sbt plugin – sbt-stats- for generating source code statistics.  Check out his introductory blog post
• Miguel Garcia at EPFL is working on a new experimental Scala compiler backend and the code emitter is said to be 30% faster
• Martin Odersky is going to re-run his “Functional Programming Principles in Scala” MOOC on coursera starting March 25th

Old Stuff

This week I offer you a presentation given by Typesafe’s Jamie Allen at the StrangeLoop 2012 conference that has only just been posted on InfoQ this week:

• A Taxonomy of Scala

Blogs & Tutorials

• Typesafe posted an interview with Jon Pretty covering Scala past, present and future
• yobriefcasts.tv posted the first part of a series of Play 2 screencasts: Play! 2 – Part One
  Introduction, Installation & The CLI
• Wille Faler gave a presentation at the London Scala User Group: Scaling the Use of Scala
• The Scala Types posted part 2 of an interview with Mathias Doenitz, the lead developer of the excellent Spray REST framework
• Daniel Westheide added part 10 to his excellent Neophyte’s Guide to Scala series: Staying DRY With Higher-order Functions
• Franz Bettag wrote a new post on his blog: Scala Try error handling without StackTraces
• Dirk Detering (aka @Developmind) attempted to dissemble monads in the hope that you’ll understand them better
• @pawelstawicki shared some very slick slides from an introductory presentation about Scala
• Alex Staveley blogged: “Scala: call me by my name please?“
• Damien Lecan provided tips on how to configure sbt credentials for Jenkins jobs on Cloudbees to keep your Scala builds platform-independent
• Vikas Hazrati blogged about ATDD, ScalaTest and Scala
• Cake’s very own @honzam399 got back to blogging with a post about Akka code talking over AMQP to C++ processing component

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