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Lightning Talk: Our experience from Java to Scala
Paul Dale
Paul is the Principal Architect for Elemica, a leading global Supply Chain services provider. Paul has led the charge transforming a traditional enterprise Java shop into a modern Scala-based team using Akka, Scala, and Lift. He has been slaying
Apache ESME: Using Lift for writing social messaging apps
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
Lightning Talk: How to foster Scala adoption in your organisation
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
The Promising Future of Akka
Viktor Klang
Viktor Klang is the Deputy CTO at Typesafe—prolific contributor to the Akka project as well as member of the Reactive Streams SIG when not involved in the Scala Standard Library concurrency APIs. Interested in all things distributed and concurrent—software as hardware.
Connecting Akka to the rest of the world with Apache Camel
Martin Krasser
Martin Krasser is a freelance software architect and engineer with software development experience in Java since 1998 and Scala since 2009. He is committer in several open-source projects including Apache Camel and Akka. His current focus is the deve
Stairway to Heaven or “Java with Closures”
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.
The New Scala Eclipse Plug-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.
Keynote - What’s New What’s Next
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.
Parallel Collections
Alex Prokopec
Aleksandar Prokopec is a research assistant in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the EPFL in Switzerland, working in the LAMP laboratory under the supervision of dr. Martin Odersky. He received his Master degree at the Faculty of E
Lightning Talk: How To Build A High Performance Scalable Infrastructure
Dave Savage
Dave Savage is a software engineer focused on building scalable, modular, dynamic networked software. General areas of interest include architectural/semantic simplicity and ...
Keynote -- Introducing Scalate, the Scala Template Engine
James Strachan
James Strachan created the Groovy programming language and Apache Camel and was one of the founders of these open source projects: Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix, fabric8 and hawtio. James is currently Senior Consulting Software Engineer at Red Hat and has more than 20 years experience in enterprise software development with a background in finance, consulting, and middleware. He also loves microservices.
Scala as an Agile Enabler
Kevin Wright
Kevin is part of Scala Technology Ltd. a regular speaker, and committer to multiple open-source Scala projects
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Keynote - What’s New What’s Next
Featuring Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky -- creator of Scala -- will share what is new in Scala, the development tools and commercial support, talk about the future directions of Scala the language and significant development investments.
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The New Scala Eclipse Plug-in
Featuring Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky will describe the architecture and design concepts used to create the new Scala Eclipse Plug-in. This talk will include a demonstration of the IDE new features.
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Representing polymorphic function values in Scala using type classes
Featuring Miles Sabin
Miles Sabin -- best known in the Scala world for his outstanding contribution to the Scala IDE for Eclipse -- will describe a new type class based approach to encoding polymorphic function values in Scala.
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Functional Programming with Scalaz
Featuring Jason Zaugg
Scalaz is a library to support functional programming in Scala. In this talk, you'll learn: what do we mean by Functional Programming?; how does Scala help (or hinder) the Functional Programmer?; what is "Ad-hoc polymorphism" (and how you could have invented it yourself); whirlwind...
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Apache ESME: Using Lift for writing social messaging apps
Featuring Vassil Dichev
In this talk, Vassil Dichev will demonstrate the strengths of using the Lift web framework for assembling a social messaging web application: real-time updates, creating and testing a RESTful API, as well as libraries for authenticating with LDAP and OpenID, parsing Textile markup, and connecting...
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Stairway to Heaven or “Java with Closures”
Featuring Chris Marshall
In this talk, Chris Marshall will discuss the challenges of moving from Java to Scala “in the enterprise”. He will cover pitfalls, pratfalls, explaining his team's journey: from wishing for “Java with Closures” to navigating a forest of new concepts: monoids, monads, applicative functors and...
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Lightning Talk: How to foster Scala adoption in your organisation
Featuring Glen Ford
Glen Ford will talk about how to foster Scala adoption in your Enterprise, discuss the areas that you need to think about and what things you can do to help make it a success.
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Lightning Talk: The Unfiltered Web Framework
Featuring Dustin Whitney
Unfiltered, which is a minimalist web framework that embraces HTTP, rather than abstracting it away, and combines it with Scala idioms to make adding "web" to your application easy to do.
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Lightning Talk: How To Build A High Performance Scalable Infrastructure
Featuring Dave Savage
How To Build A High Performance Scalable Infrastructure
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Keynote -- Introducing Scalate, the Scala Template Engine
Featuring James Strachan
In this talk, James Strachan introduces the Scala Template Engine: Scalate. James will walk you through the different template languages available in Scalate, discussing the pros and cons of each to help you pick the right template language.
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The Promising Future of Akka
Featuring Viktor Klang
In this talk, Viktor Klang introduces the Futures in the Akka toolkit and show how one can utilize Futures to enable non-blocking composition of parallel sources of data or computations, to defer blocking not only until the end of the universe, but to get rid of it completely.
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Connecting Akka to the rest of the world with Apache Camel
Featuring Martin Krasser
Martin Krasser introduces the Apache Camel integration framework and demonstrates how it is used by Akka actors to exchange messages with other systems over a large number of protocols and APIs.
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ParkBench Panel Discussion at #scalax
Featuring Various Speakers
Experts and community come together for the Sacala eXchange ParkBench Panel Discussion
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Parallel Collections
Featuring Alex Prokopec
Alex Prokopec will describe how the Parallel Collections were created, how the architecture works, an under-the-bonnet look at their use. Parallel collections provide a simple and intuitive way to utilize the power of multi-core systems for a broad range of problem types.
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Reactors
Featuring Ingo Maier
Ingo Maier will describe a library-based reactive data-flow extension to Scala which allows a seamless transition from observer-based code to reactive data-flow programs.
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Scala as an Agile Enabler
Featuring Kevin Wright
The topics Kevin will cover include:
-> agile, TDD/BDD, refactoring, continuous integration, iterations, stakeholder communication, developer communication, responsiveness to change, Scala (and how it relates to all of the above)
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Lightning Talk: Scala STM
Featuring Dustin Whitney
I've been using Scala STM for about a year -- I'll show why it's useful, how to use it, when to use it, and what pitfalls to avoid when you are using it, and perhaps show it's usage compared to when you'd use actors
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Lightning Talk: Lift scaffolding from existing database
Featuring Thomas Alexandre
Thomas Alexandre introduces Scalafarm, a tool that helps Enterprise Scala users to boost productivity when they start with the Lift framework by reverse-engineering an existing database into a default CRUD Lift application.
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Lightning Talk: Our experience from Java to Scala
Featuring Paul Dale
Elemica has been using Scala for over a year. I will share our development approach, tooling experiences, and do a deep dive into an EDIFACT to xpath parser to demonstrate the power and flexibility of the parser library.
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ScalaX2gether Community Day 2018
One day in London
We're excited to announce ScalaX2gether, to be held on Saturday 15th December at Skills Matter's home, CodeNode. #ScalaX2gether is organised by Skills Matter and the Community. Together, we will host a day-long event with a few workshops and challenges.
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Scala eXchange London 2018
Two days in London
Join us at Scala eXchange London 2018, Europe's largest gathering of Scala engineers, to discover where Scala is headed in 2019 and to meet, learn and share skills with 1,000+ other passionate Scala developers.
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ScalaX2gether Community Day
One day in London
We're excited to announce the return of the Scala eXchange Community Day - ScalaX2gether, to be held on Saturday 16th December at Skills Matter's home, CodeNode. The #ScalaX2gether is organized by Skills Matter with the aim of hosting a community day with a few unconference sessions.
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Scala eXchange 2017
Two days in London
Want to understand where Scala is going, what’s Lightbend’s vision for collaboration, competition and interoperability in Scala? How the Dotty project will help develop new technology for Scala tooling and concepts for future Scala language versions? Are you involved in a large Microservices or...
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ScalaXHack 2016
One day in London
We're excited to announce the return of the Scala Exchange Hack Day, to be held on Saturday 10th December at Skills Matter's home, CodeNode. The #ScalaXHack is organized by Skills Matter, with Underscore, Typelevel, and the Scala Centre. Together, we will host a daytime hackathon with a...
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Scala eXchange 2016
Two days in London
Want to understand where Scala is going, what’s Lightbend’s vision for collaboration, competition and interoperability in Scala? How the Dotty project will help develop new technology for Scala tooling and concepts for future Scala language versions? Are you involved in a large Microservices or...
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ScalaXHack
One day in London
We're excited to announce the first ever Scala Exchange Hack Day, to be held on Saturday 12th December at CodeNode in partnership with Underscore and the London Scala User Group.
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Scala eXchange Party
0.5 days in London
Scala eXchange 2015 continues at Skills Matter's new home CodeNode for the Scala eXchange Party! Starting at 6.30pm on 10th December 2015!
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Scala eXchange 2015
Two days in London
Want to hear the latest happenings in the world in Scala? Interested in hearing how your peers are approaching similar software challenges? Then join us at Scala eXchange 2015, Europe's largest community conference on Scala.
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Scala eXchange 2014
Two days in London
Join us at Europe's largest and most comprehensive annual Scala conference in London. The Scala eXchange brings together the world's top Scala experts with Europe's passionate community of Scala developers.
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Scala eXchange 2013
Two days in London
The Scala eXchange returns to Skills Matter for it's third year - share, learn and innovate with 350+ attendees, 60+ presentations, and the world's greatest Scala Rock Stars!
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Scala eXchange 2012
Two days in London
The Scala eXchange returns to Skills Matter for it's second year. The Scala eXchange comes in the wake of Scala Days in April - 350+ attendees, 60+ presentations, and the lovebus! -
For updates on our latest confirmed speakers and talks, follow us on Twitter @skillsmatter and #scalax
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