Trond Bjerkestrand
Trond Bjerkestrand, co-founder of Groosker, is a Lightbend-certified Scala and Akka trainer and consultant. He is interested in functional programming, payments, startups and bitcoin and is one of the organizers of the Geneva Scala Enthusiasts meetup.
Talks I've Given
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Throw Away your Bash Scripts
Featuring Trond Bjerkestrand
Odersky's original idea behind 'scalable language' was that Scala should be an excellent language for writing small scripts, but allow these scripts to easily grow into bigger applications. However, the slow JVM startup time has often been a limiting factor for scripting in Scala....
scala jvm functional-programming scala-native -
Temperature control with Raspberry Pi and Akka
Featuring Trond Bjerkestrand
Join this meetup by Trond Bjerkestrand where he shares the story of creating a useful functional reactive application with Scala and Akka and interacting with Raspberry Pi's serial port.
functional raspberry-pi akka scala -
Working with databases in Scala using SLICK / ScalaQuery
Featuring Trond Bjerkestrand
This talk will give an overview over SLICK and give examples how you can use it to create and query rational databases.
scala typesafe