2 DAY CONFERENCE

Scala Lift Off London 2010

Topics covered at #scalalol

Thursday, 7th - Friday, 8th October in London

19 experts spoke.
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Akka: Simpler Concurrency, Scalability & Fault-Tolerance through Actors



Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér is founder and CTO of Lightbend, inventor of the Akka project, co-author of the Reactive Manifesto and a Java Champion.


Parsing in Scala: Combinators and Parboiled



Mathias Doenitz

Mathias is lead developer of spray.io, Akka committer and passionate Scala-ista. As a long-time and active member of the Java and Scala open source community he is especially excited about everything performance-, scalability- and web-related.


Parboiled - Scala Parsing DSL (Lightning Talk)



Mathias Doenitz

Mathias is lead developer of spray.io, Akka committer and passionate Scala-ista. As a long-time and active member of the Java and Scala open source community he is especially excited about everything performance-, scalability- and web-related.


No Boxing Here: A Scala Compiler Plugin Walk Through



Iulian Dragos

Iulian Dragoș dreams about a world where the Scala programming language is the default choice for new projects. He learned Scala by writing the compiler backend for it during his PhD at EPFL, back in 2004, and he was the first employee of Lightbend (formerly Typesafe). At Lightbend he helped the company grow from 5 to 85 employees, playing the role of engineer, technical lead, consultant, trainer or sales engineer. Iulian is a frequent speaker at conferences and actively contributing to several open-source projects.


Experience with Scala & AKKA at BBC R&D prototyping



Glen Ford

Based in London, Glen is the Chief Architect of zeebox, a UK based startup aiming to bring the best of web and TV together. With nearly 20 years of experience he has worked in various industries including Defence, Telecommunications, Gaming and Media


Why Scala and Lift? (Lightning Talk)



Jeppe Nejsum Madsen

Jeppe Nejsum Madsen is the CTO of FleetZone, a company that provids a SaaS based fleet management platform written in Scala & Lift. He's a committer at the Lift project and an enterprise consultant and architect.


Scala 2.8 Collections Outside In



Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is best known as the creator of the Scala programming language. Prior to that, he made several contributions to the development of Java. He created the Pizza and GJ languages, designed the original version of generics for Java, and wrote the javac reference compiler.


Questions and Answers



David Pollak

David Pollak is a long time Scala dude, interested in Functional Programming, Scala, Clojure and making things better.


Scala Modules (Lightning Talk)



Heiko Seeberger

Heiko Seeberger loves rock climbing, is an internationally renowned expert on Scala, Akka and Functional Programming and is enthusiastic about Rust. He has more than twenty years of experience in software engineering, consulting and training and is an active open source contributor. Heiko works as an independent consultant and regularly shares his knowledge at conferences and user group meetings.

He tweets as @hseeberger and sometimes blogs at heikoseeberger.rocks.


How we moved from Java to Scala



Graham Tackley

Graham Tackley works at the Guardian.


MineSweeper in Scala and Lift



Kevin Wright

Kevin is part of Scala Technology Ltd. a regular speaker, and committer to multiple open-source Scala projects


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