The Java Posse : Java Posse #314 - Roundup '10

Tor Norbye (Google), Carl Quinn (Netflix), Dick Wall (Escalate), Chet Haase (Google)

Sat, 10 July 2010

Roundup 2010 - Scala

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 - a discussion on Scala.

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Extending the Scala Language
- Operators - http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html
- Actors - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
- Compiler plugins - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/140
Traits
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126
Closures
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/138
Option types
- http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/50-The-Scala-Option-class-and-how-lift-uses-it.html
Benevolent dictator for life
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
Implicits
- http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2010/06/scala-implicits-type-classes-here-i.html
Perl - more than one way to do it
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_more_than_one_way_to_do_it
Implicit manifest (reification)
- http://www.scala-blogs.org/2008/10/manifests-reified-types.html
XML literals
- http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/working-with-scalas-xml-support
Groovy builders
- http://groovy.codehaus.org/Builders
Scala wicket
- http://www.slideshare.net/stuq/basic-wicket-and-scala
Github javabin scala training
- http://github.com/javaBin/scala-training-slides
Talking puffin
- http://talkingpuffin.org/
Beginning Scala - David Pollak
- http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Scala-David-Pollak/dp/1430219890/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
- http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Comprehensive-Step-step/dp/0981531601/ref=pd_sim_b_1
O'Relly Scala book
- http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Scalability-Functional-Objects/dp/0596155956/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Monadic design patterns
- http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Scala-Monadic-Design-Patterns/dp/143022844X
Scala koans
- http://github.com/dickwall
Lift
- http://liftweb.net/
Case classes
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/107
Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3289
- Discussion - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6202
Structural types
- http://markthomas.info/blog/?p=66
Annotations (e.g. JPA)
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/106
- http://www.hars.de/2009/03/jpa-with-scala.html
Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
- http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Funky+Java,+Objective+Scala
Scalatest
- http://www.artima.com/scalatest/

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- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
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