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Scala Dynamo - a Scala (and Java!) API for Amazon’s DynamoDB

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Last week saw the announcement of Amazon Web Services NoSQL database as a service, Dynamo. Dynamo has a number of very interesting features, not least that it runs as a managed service with certain guarantees with regards to scalability, resilience and...

0 replies - 2630 views - 01/26/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

Which Integration Framework Should You Use – Spring Integration, Mule ESB or Apache Camel?

Data exchanges between companies are increasing a lot. The number of applications that must be integrated is increasing, too. The interfaces use different technologies, protocols and data formats. Nevertheless, the integration of these applications must be...

0 replies - 3112 views - 01/19/12 by Kai Wähner in Articles

Implementing an async servlet in Scala with less than 10 lines of code

What is async servlet and why use it? An async servlet can tell the container that it will handle a request later, so that the current thread is not tied up and can be used for another request. Why is it useful? For example, if the request is going to do...

1 replies - 1693 views - 01/11/12 by kent tong in Articles

Scala for 2012? Deciding Whether to Invest In a Programming Language

I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly yearly basis. If forced to self-identify with any single programming language, it would be Java.

1 replies - 4775 views - 01/08/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Location-based Application with Play Framework, Scala, Google Maps Clustering, PostgreSQL, Heroku and Anorm

As I mentioned in a past article, Why Did I Fall in Love with Play! Framework?, I was the tech lead for a few real estate deployments for Fannie Mae, HUD, Foreclosure.com, etc; as you know, real estate is all about LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION!

2 replies - 2254 views - 01/06/12 by Felipe Oliveira in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 7

This is part 7 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and you can get links to those and other resources on the links page of the Computational Linguistics course I’m creating these for.

0 replies - 1396 views - 01/02/12 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 6

This is part 6 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and you can get links to those and other resources on the links page of the Computational Linguistics course I’m creating these for.

0 replies - 1354 views - 12/30/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 5

This is part 5 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and you can get links to those and other resources on the links page of the Computational Linguistics course I’m creating these for.

0 replies - 1538 views - 12/29/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 4

This is part 4 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and you can get links to those and other resources on the links page of the Computational Linguistics course I’m creating these for.

0 replies - 1413 views - 12/28/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 3

This is part 3 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and you can get links to those and other resources on the links page of the Computational Linguistics course I’m creating these for.

0 replies - 1607 views - 12/27/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 2

This is the second in a planned series of tutorials on programming in Scala for first-time programmers, with specific reference to my Fall 2011 course Introduction to Computational Linguistics. You can see the other tutorials here on this blog; they are...

0 replies - 1859 views - 12/23/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

How I Was Convinced to Try Scala

The passion of the Scala community has been the key factor that has endeared many developers to the rising JVM language.For over a full year now, I’ve been looking into Scala. I have heard many people talk about it passionately and it just got me...

3 replies - 2135 views - 12/22/11 by Jelle Victoor in Articles

Starting with Lift and CouchDB: Resolving Some CouchDB-Record Inconsistencies

In recent months I have been introduced to Lift web framework by my scala-enthusiastic colleagues @ OpenCredo. The scala expressiveness and conciseness along with view-first web approach looked very interesting from the start, especially since great...

1 replies - 489 views - 12/21/11 by Aleksa Vukotic in Articles

The ultimate SQL-DSL: jOOQ in Scala

I’ve recently come across some advertising for the new upcoming version of Scala IDE for Eclipse, which made me remember my college programming lessons at the EPFL Laboratoire des Méthodes de Programmation (LAMP), the origin of the

0 replies - 1862 views - 12/15/11 by Lukas Eder in Articles

Recent Community Conversation on Scala

For several years now, I've thought about investing more time and effort into learning and trying out Scala. However, there always seems to be something else that I run across that moves ahead in the queue of things I want to examine more closely. With ...

1 replies - 2158 views - 12/08/11 by Dustin Marx in News