JAVAWUG (Java Web User Group) is holding the 55th BOF (Birds-of-Feather) meetup at Skills Matter. Phil Miller will talk about ways to ease into Scala development.
The JVM hosts an exciting choice of newer languages, like JRuby, Groovy, JavaFX, Clojure and Scala, and as our industry increasingly bangs the drum for agile methodologies and high level concurrency support, these languages are becoming more hyped.
We've all taken a look at the offerings but we're left wondering which, if any, is worth betting on. Agilists look to the dynamic typing and short developer cycles of languages like JRuby and Groovy, while teams investing in concurrency are trying to beat down on mutable state with Clojure and Scala.
Phil will rationalise why you should consider using Scala in your next webapp, and how to mitigate this risk by blending in familiar tools like Spring and Maven for the rest of your development effort.
As we examine and build a simple Scala webapp, Phil will talk about the readability and writability of the language, then add some secret sauce, like currying and implicit conversions.
Scala News & Events
Martin Odersky will give a 2-day Scala Workshop in London on June 9-10th 2010
Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, is coming to London to give a 2-day
Scala Workshop at Skills Matter!
JAVAWUG meetup featuring Scala talk
You can also join the JAVAWUG BOF 55 Meetup, featuring an
Ease into Scala Web Development talk by
Phil Miller at Skills Matter. More info and (free) sign up
here.
Next LSUG meetup on Scala, Traits & Mixins
The London Scala User Group will be hosting a talk on
Scala, Traits & Mixins by Kevin Wright. More info and (free) sign up
here.
Colin Howe's LSUG slides featured on slideshare
Yesterday (March 8th 2010), we received an email from Slideshare, informing us that they had announced
Colin Howe's talk on Rewriting Java Classes in Scala as one of the most talked about Slideshare presentations on Twitter #scalasm and as such, a link to Colin's slides was featured on their homepage!
Scala Lift-off in London? We are working on it!
Skills Matter is currently working with David Pollak, creator of Lift, to organise a Scala Lift-off in London. More news on this soon (follow us on twitter
@skillsmatter #scalasm, or join the Functional Programming community site on
functionalpx.ning.com!
