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SCALA LIFTOFF LONDON 2011 13-10-11
The Scala LiftOff London 2011 is a great, International Scala Unconference taking place over two days from the 13th to the 14th October 2011 at Skills Matter.
Scala LiftOff London first happened in 2010, where many fantastic contributions from the Scala Community combined to create a wonderful, stimulating event. Find SkillsCast video recordings of most presentations (featuring many exciting innovations and ideas, practices and technologies featured this year) in the programme below.
SkillsCast Video Recordings
Missed a session? Find SkillsCast videos of most sessions by browsing the programme below
Thursday 13th October 2011
Track 1
09:00 WELCOME & KEYNOTE
 David Pollak: David Pollak looks back over the last 3 years of Scala LiftOff -- and takes stack of where we are going View the podcast here...
10:00 VERSION 2.0: SCALA IDE FOR ECLIPSE
11:00 LIFT FROM A JEE PERSPECTIVE
 Andreas Krogh: In this presentation for Scala LiftOff 2011, Andreas Krogh tries to answer how Lift plays with the JEE-stack with an example application. View the podcast here...
13:00 OPEN SPACE UNCONFERENCE
Track 2
10:00 SCALA CONTINUATIONS AND NIO MEET JVM COROUTINES
 Miles Sabin: Miles Sabin, certified level 42 Scala type spelunker, will present Scala continuations and NIO meet JVM coroutinesbe presenting for Scala LiftOff London 2011. View the podcast here...
11:00 CONCURRENT HASH TRIES
 Phil Bagwell: In this talk, Phil Bagwell will explain how the non-blocking data structure is achieved. A new fast hash function will be discussed. View the podcast here...
Track 3
10.00 BUILDING REAL-TIME SPORTS BETTING SYSTEMS IN LIFT
 Catherine Jung: Catherine Jung will present our approach, the challenges we faced, and the things that turned out to be so much easier than expected when developing in Scala with Lift. View the podcast here...
11:00 APACHE ESME
 Vassil Dichev: Learn how Apache ESME uses Lift to create a secure real-time web application. Discover how Lift actors help scalability. Find out one way to easily create and test a RESTful API. Explore some of the Lift modules used by Apache ESME View the podcast here...
Friday 14th October 2011
Track 1
09:00 KEYNOTE: THE RAPTURE PLATFORM AS A SERVICE
 Jon Pretty: Jon Pretty opens day 2 with the keynote, discussing the Rapture Platform as a Service offering that his company has been building View the podcast here...
10:00 NAUGHT TO SCALA IN JUST 2 YEARS: LEARNING SCALA THROUGH BUILDING A MONGODB DRIVER
 Brendan McAdams: When he began working with Scala in October, 2009, Brendan McAdams had never written any Scala. In this talk, Brendan will explore the lessons learned in exploring Scala through the creation of Casbah, including Rules of Style for the burgeoning library author, hairy corners of Scala, and when not to be clever and why. View the podcast here...
13:00 OPEN SPACE UNCONFERENCE
16:30 CONFERENCE CLOSING -- WITH PRIZES
David Pollak: David Pollak closes the conference with prizes. Then we go to the pub for more Scala discussion! View the podcast here...
Track 2
10:00 SCALAZ
 Chris Marshall: Chris Marshall will present ScalaZ in a totally comprehensible way. You'll see how the awesomeness of Scala can be transformed into real-world success in financial services. View the podcast here...
11:00 READING, WRITING AND THE REST
 Dave Gurnell: In this talk, Dave Gurnell will walk through the creation of Bigtop Routes, a bidirectional mapping library that is both type-safe and developer-friendly. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which Scala language features, such as flexible syntax, implicit conversions, and a touch of type-level programming, help to simplify the task at hand. View the podcast here...
Track 3
10:00 LIFT AT THE GUARDIAN
 Graham Tackley: Graham Tackley from The Guardian will be presenting at the Scala LiftOff London. He will discuss using Lift in the stateless front end of the Guardian site as well as the Guardian's content API. View the podcast here...
11:00 LIFTWEB IN THE REAL-WORLD, A HYPER-POLYGLOT'S TALE
 Franz Bettag: Franz Bettag will be exploring for Scala LiftOff London the ideas from his blog post How Liftweb changed my view of Web-Applications. View the podcast here...
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