This week in #Scala (09/02/2013)

Welcome to another edition of #ThisWeekInScala.  It’s becoming pretty usual for me to single out my favourite Scala tweet of the week.  So, continuing in that vein, here’s my choice chirp:

@jamie_allen: You #akka test writers have no idea how good you have it! When *I* wrote actor tests, we had no TestKit or TestActorRef! #getoffmylawn

To be fair, testing actors with all their asynchronicity is really a sinch with Akka’s TestKit.    Right, onto my roundup for the past week…

New Stuff

• Play framework 2.1 is now available and has a new website
• The Slick database library has gone up to a 1.0 release!
• The eventsourced reference application is now running on Scala 2.10.0 and Akka 2.1.0
• Socko web server v0.2.4 was realeased
• superfeedr announced a Scala wrapper around their XMPP API
• Datomisca – the first reactive driver for Datomic DB – has been released
• Adam Warski got in touch to say he’s release version 0.2 of Veripacks, which allows one to specify which classes from a package hierarchy should be accessible, and verify that the specification is met.

Old Stuff

This week I offer you a presentation given by Bill Venners at Devoxx 2012:

• Simplicity in Scala Design

Blogs & Tutorials

• yobriefcasts posted the third and final episode of the Play! 2 Series
• Daniel Westheide added part 12 to his series “Neophyte’s Guide to Scala“:  Type Classes
• Alois Cochard shared how you can make use of Vim’s quick fix with sbt
• Michel Vollebregt blogged Writing readable code in Scala using your own DSLs
• honzam399 wrote about using Spray’s JSON serialization for manipulating objects in Neo4j
• Erik Bruchez reasoned about Map.map vs. Map.mapValues
• Marcelo Olivas showed us how to send an e-mail within a Play framework based app
• Sadache, co-creator of the Play framework blogged: Playframework: Async, Reactive, Threads, Futures, ExecutionContexts
•  Marius Soutier reviewed the book “Akka Essentials“
• Jason Baldridge showed us how to use twitter4j with Scala to access streaming tweets

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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.