Scala LiftOff London 2011
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Concurrent Hash Tries
Phil Bagwell
It was with great sadness that we learned of Phil's passing on October 6th 2012. Phil, a much respected and integral part of the Scala community, was also a dear friend of Skills Matter. We worked closely with Phil on the propagation of Scala and nur
Liftweb in the real-world, a hyper-polyglot's tale
Franz Bettag
Franz is a BSD-enthusiastic Black Belt DevOp with Polyglot tendencies. After having done paid projects in over 25 programming languages, he's found his passion in Scala and has been an active member of the community since 2009.
Apache ESME
Vassil Dichev
Vassil is a committer at Apache ESME, an open-source microblogging application written in Lift, and also a committer at Lift, a scalable, secure and full-featured Scala web framework. Vassil is using Scala at Remember The Milk trying to help peopl
Version 2.0: Scala IDE for Eclipse
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.
Reading, Writing and the REST
Dave Gurnell
Dave is a developer, trainer, and partner at underscore.io. He has spent over a decade programming, speaking at conferences, and writing books on functional programming.
Building real-time sports betting systems in Lift
Catherine Jung
Catherine is a Java dev turned Scala dev, co-coder of the first HTML only inplay gaming system, and co-founder of the Scala development consultancy SwitchToScala
Lift from a JEE perspective
Andreas Krogh
Andreas has 13 years experience doing commercial software-development. The last 12 years he has been working almost exclusively with JAVA and JEE.
Scalaz
Chris Marshall
Chris Marshall (@oxbow_lakes) is one of the 22 scala gold-badged users on StackOverflow, although he is unique in being the only undeserving recipient.
Naught to Scala in Just 2 Years: Learning Scala through Building a MongoDB Driver
Brendan McAdams
Brendan is a Senior Consultant & Trainer at BoldRadius, where he works directly with clients to help them find success through consulting and training on the Typesafe Reactive Platform.
Conference closing -- with prizes
David Pollak
David Pollak is a long time Scala dude, interested in Functional Programming, Scala, Clojure and making things better.
Welcome & Keynote
David Pollak
David Pollak is a long time Scala dude, interested in Functional Programming, Scala, Clojure and making things better.
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Welcome & Keynote
Featuring David Pollak
David Pollak looks back over the last 3 years of Scala LiftOff -- and takes stack of where we are going
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Building real-time sports betting systems in Lift
Featuring 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.
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Scala continuations and NIO meet JVM coroutines
Featuring 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.
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Version 2.0: Scala IDE for Eclipse
Featuring Iulian Dragos
Iulian Dragos will be demonstrating version 2.0 of the Scala IDE for Eclipse.
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Apache ESME
Featuring 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
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Concurrent Hash Tries
Featuring 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.
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Lift from a JEE perspective
Featuring 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.
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Lift at the Guardian
Featuring 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.
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Scalaz
Featuring 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.
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Liftweb in the real-world, a hyper-polyglot's tale
Featuring 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.
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Reading, Writing and the REST
Featuring 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...
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Naught to Scala in Just 2 Years: Learning Scala through Building a MongoDB Driver
Featuring 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...
scala casbah mongodb
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Scala Lift Off London 2010
Two days in London
The Scala LiftOff comes to Skills Matter! We are thrilled to partner with David Pollak @dpp, Kaliya Hamlin @identitywoman, Jennifer Holmes @dangerangel and the London Scala Community for a 2 DAY Scala LiftOff! This 2 day Scala Unconference will enable you to delve deep into Scala and Lift, as...
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