Fredrik Ekholdt
Fredrik Ekholdt has spent all of his free time working with Scala since he was introduced to Scala back in 2009. At Lightbend Fredrik is mainly teaching Scala and Play courses and helping customers to adopt these technologies.
Fredrik is a trainer and consultant at Lightbend. He started his career developing search engines and ended up working for Microsoft as result of an acquisition. At Microsoft he was building the next generation search solution for SharePoint and helping out with Office 365.
Since he was introduced to Scala back in 2009, he has spent all of his free time working with it. At Lightbend Fredrik is mainly teaching Scala and Play courses and helping customers to adopt these technologies. He has also contributed to course materials on Scala and Play.
Beside of these, Fredrik spends his time building SpendChart.no and Groosker.com using Scala, sbt and ScalaQuery.
Talks I've Given
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Introducing Adept
Featuring Fredrik Ekholdt
Dependency management should be something nobody should need to relate to, yet a surprising amount of time is spent on this aspect which should simply work. Adept is a new dependency management system in Scala, here to change the way it is done on the JVM. This talk will be about what Adept is,...
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Play, sbt and its compilers
Featuring Fredrik Ekholdt
Ever wondered how the Play framework's reload magic works? And what about those compilers for JavaScript and CoffeeScript? The answer is a sbt plugin. Join Typesafe's Fredrik in an inquisitive dive into Play from the sbt point of view and learn more about Play, sbt and how to support your...
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Starting with Play 2.0 and How to Build Non-Blocking Apps
Featuring Fredrik Ekholdt
This talk will be for beginners and intermediates of Play alike. The talk has two parts:
the basics of Play and how to get started
non-blocking behavior in Play applications
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Introducing deputy - the dependency utility
Featuring Fredrik Ekholdt
Deputy is a new command line tool that helps you get control over those pesky deps.
Come with your friends to learn more!
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