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Date: Sat Apr 13 09:00:00 UTC 2013

Another chance to hack with the London Scala user group and the wider software development community.

Read about the HackTheTower event in February to get a feel for the event.

Come along and create new apps or work on existing projects with other developers.  Discover functional programming and other new stuff such as Play 2 framework, MongoDB, Travis-CI, Neo4j Heroku & Forcedotcom and get creative.

LSug members have been building a new website to manage their community, so you can either join in with that project or build your own web application or service.

We are inviting members from outside the London Scala community as many technical challenges and techniques are common regardless of language (github pull requests, using MongoDB, managing deployment, etc).

 

Rough Schedule
10.00am - Find the Salesforce office in Tower42, refreshments after your adventure
10.15am - Discuss your application ideas & how to build them.
10.45am - Split into groups and get going
12.30pm - Lunch time (sandwiches and drinks provided)
01.00pm - Keep on hacking until you have had enough

 

In total, there is space for around 50 developers on the day.  Food & drink will be provided, thanks to Salesforce.com

 

 

 

Important: Access details

Please ensure your full name is used when registering as this is needed by building security to let you in.

Finding the office in Tower42

As you enter Tower42, go to the front desk and give your name to receive a visitor pass for the building.

Go up the escalators to security, your bag will be quickly scanned and you pass through a metal detector.

Once through security, take the escalators immediately to your left - following the blue path.  Walk all the way round to lifts and take the lift to the 24th floor.

At the 24th floor, get out of the lift and cross the hallway.  Take the blue lifts to the 27th floor.  Exiting the lift to your left you will find the Salesforce office

Date: Wed Apr 10 17:30:00 UTC 2013

 

IMPORTANT This is at SkillsMatter, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/rapture-io

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Rapture I/O

 

Jon Pretty (@propensive) will be talking about Rapture I/O (http://rapture.io), a comprehensive open-source Scala library providing much of the functionality of the java.io and java.net packages with a much more intuitive and extensible Scala API. Rapture I/O takes advantage of Scala's best features to provide a simple and safe interface to common I/O operations.

A particular focus will be Rapture I/O's support for JSON handling, which makes working with dynamically-typed JSON a much more natural experience in the statically-typed Scala world. For more advanced Scala users, Jon will spend some time showing how advanced features like implicits and higher-kinded types have been employed to facilitate this elegant API.

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/rapture-io

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Mon Mar 25 00:15:00 UTC 2013

 

 

CouchBase[UK] 2013

April 11th 2013

Congress Centre
28 Great Russell Street

Please note this is an online promotion and no actual meeting will take place

Win a free ticket to CouchBase[UK] 2013!

We have been generously offered a free ticket to CouchBase[UK] 2013 to raffle to one lucky LSUG member.

To enter simply RSVP to this event.

For everyone else there is a 10%-off Promo code of

PERRY

 

If you’re evaluating NoSQL for your projects or just learning about NoSQL for the first time, join us for Couchbase UK 2013. This one-day event will draw attendees from across Europe to explore NoSQL and document database technology, take a closer look at Couchbase Server 2.0, and hear how leading European companies are harnessing this powerful technology for their interactive web applications.

Conference highlights:

• Technology updates and a look ahead from Couchbase technologists
• Presentations by Couchbase users with real-world examples, scenarios, and deployments
• Technically rich sessions for developers, admins, architects, and newbies
• Couchbase Genius Bar - the place to get your questions answered by Couchbase experts!
• A post conference pub crawl ... on Couchbase

More details at: http://www.couchbase.com/couchbase-london

The draw is for a free pass to the conference, the prize does not include travel, catering or accommodation expenses.

Date: Mon Mar 18 18:30:00 UTC 2013

 

IMPORTANT This is a SkillsMatter Event, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/what-is-david-pollak-going-to-say

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David Pollak: The Grand Unification

 

Yep, @dpp's got his fingers in a lot of pies... he founded the Lift web framework project, he founded the Hoisted content management project and its commercial side, Telegram, and he founded the Visi language project... but how do these projects fit together?

Come join David for a night of demo of all three projects and a clear description of how they fit together, and you might even see Visi running inside a Lift app.

 

 

 

 

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

Functional Programming eXchange 2013 MARCH 15th 2013 For even more of David, the goto Functional eXchange on March 15th to learn and share common challenges and ideas across the different languages of the functional programming paradigm! Representing Scala, F#, Clojure, Haskell are:

• Simon Peyton Jones takes you on an adventure with types
• The latest in F# with Don Syme
• What's David Pollak been up to developing Lift 3.0?
• Robert Rees contrasts Clojure & Scala
• ...and there's Robert Pickering, Nic Ferrier, Adam Granicz, Alain Frisch, and Paul Dale!

Interested? More Details @ Functional Programming eXchange

 

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/what-is-david-pollak-going-to-say

 

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Sun Mar 17 00:15:00 UTC 2013

 

 

MongoDB London

April 9th 2013

Grand Connaught Rooms

Please note this is an online promotion and no actual meeting will take place

Win a free ticket to MongoDB London 2013!

We have been generously offered a free ticket to MongoDB London 2013 to raffle to one lucky LSUG member.

To enter simply RSVP to this event.

For everyone else there is a 10%-off Promo code of

LSUG10

 

MongoDB London is our annual user conference in the UK dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. At MongoDB London, you will be able to connect with fellow MongoDB developers and 10gen engineers.

As if that wasn't enough on its own, this year we are very excited to welcome 10gen's co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz!

In this multi-track conference, there will also be talks from companies including YouWin, Square Enix, Nokia, eXo Platforms, Server Density and many others.

You may be especially interested in the talk from Alexander Jarvis of Panaxiom on Reactive Mongo and Akka.

Check out the line up here.

More details at: http://www.10gen.com/events/mongodb-london

Twitter: @MongoDBdays

 

The draw is for a free pass to the conference, the prize does not include travel, catering or accommodation expenses.

Date: Sat Mar 16 10:00:00 UTC 2013

 

Hack Day

with

 

Another chance to hack with the London Scala user group and the wider software development community.

Read about the HackTheTower event in February to get a feel for the event.

Come along and create new apps or work on existing projects with other developers.  Discover functional programming and other new stuff such as Play2 framework, MongoDB, Travis-CI, Neo4j & Heroku and get creative.

Help other lsug members build a new website to manage their community, so you can either join in with that project or build your own web application or service.

 

Rough Schedule

10.00am - Find the Mind Candy office on Bonhill St, refreshments after your adventure! Maybe have a go on the slide!
10.15am - Discuss your application ideas & how to build them.
10.45am - Split into groups and get going
12.30pm - Lunch time (sandwiches and drinks provided)
01.00pm - Keep on hacking until you have had enough

 

In total, there is space for around 40 developers on the day.  Food & drink will be provided, thanks to Mind Candy

 

Important: Access details

Please ensure your full name is used when registering as this is needed by building security to let you in.

Finding the Mind Candy office

Mind Candy is on the 4th floor of the Bonhill Building, near Old Street, Liverpool Street and Shoreditch stations. The building security will have your name and we will usher you up to the office! For a map see mindcandy.com/contact

 

Date: Wed Feb 27 18:30:00 UTC 2013

 

IMPORTANT This is at SkillsMatter, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/predictionio-introducing-the-first-scala-based-open-source-prediction-server

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PredictionIO - Introducing the first Scala-based open source prediction server

 

In the seminar, I will explain:

• Why we create PredictionIO  (http://www.prediction.io coming soon :-)
• Why Scala is a perfect choice for data science project
• An overview of our system architecture
• How software developers can build predictive applications with Scala and PredictionIO

 

Simon Chan is a co-founder of TappingStone. He is one of the developers of PredictionIO - the to-be-released open source prediction server written in Scala. Starting off as a software engineer in Silicon Valley after graduating from university, Simon founded three startups in the past 10 years: a tutor matching site in California, which later pivoted to become a profitable tutoring center; a career-centered networking and matching site in Hong Kong; and a social news recommendation site in mainland China. He specializes in machine learning and recommendation technology, with a strong interest in social applications. Simon graduated from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Computer Science degree. He is a PhD candidate in Machine Learning at University College London.

 

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/predictionio-introducing-the-first-scala-based-open-source-prediction-server

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Sun Feb 17 17:00:00 UTC 2013

 

 

DevoxxUK is coming to London!

March 26 – 27th 2013

The Business Design Centre, Islington, N1

Please note this is an online promotion and no actual meeting will take place

Win a free ticket to DevoxxUK 2013!

We have been generously offered a free ticket to Devoxx 2013 to raffle to one lucky LSUG member.

To enter simply RSVP to this event.

We know that you’ve been waiting for more community led, world class developer conferences to arrive... well here we are! The LJC is backing the largest JVM developer conference in Europe having an edition in London.

 

We’re bringing the who’s who of the Java/JVM and Software Development worlds to London, as well as showcasing talent from the local development community. In particular the Languages of the JVM track will be of interest to the Scala community.

 

Tracks: Languages on the JVM • Java SE • Java EE • Mobile • Architecture, Cloud and Security • Web and Big Data • Methodology • The Future

 

More details at: http://www.devoxx.co.uk

Register now at: http://reguk.devoxx.com

Twitter: @DevoxxUK

 

In recognition of the close ties between the London Java Community and the London Scala Community we're offering 1 FREE ticket to Devoxx UK, enjoy!

 

The draw is for a free pass to the conference, the prize does not include travel, catering or accommodation expenses.

Date: Sat Feb 09 10:00:00 UTC 2013

Another chance to hack with the London Scala community and the wider software development community.

Its a great chance to work with other developers discovering functional programming and other new stuff such as Play 2 framework, MongoDB, Travis-CI, Neo4j Heroku & Forcedotcom to get together and get creative.

LSug members started building a new website to manage their community, so you can either join in with that project or build your own web application or service.

We are inviting members from outside the London Scala community as many technical challenges and techniques are common regardless of language (github pull requests, using MongoDB, managing deployment, etc).

 

Rough Schedule
10.00am - Find the Salesforce office in Tower42, refreshments after your adventure
10.15am - Discuss your application ideas & how to build them.
10.45am - Split into groups and get going
12.30pm - Lunch time (sandwiches and drinks provided)
01.00pm - Keep on hacking until you have had enough

 

In total, there is space for around 50 developers on the day.  Food & drink will be provided, thanks to Salesforce.com

 

 

 

Important: Access details

Please ensure your full name is used when registering as this is needed by building security to let you in.

Finding the office in Tower42

As you enter Tower42, go to the front desk and give your name to receive a visitor pass for the building.

Go up the escalators to security, your bag will be quickly scanned and you pass through a metal detector.

Once through security, take the escalators immediately to your left - following the blue path.  Walk all the way round to lifts and take the lift to the 24th floor.

At the 24th floor, get out of the lift and cross the hallway.  Take the blue lifts to the 27th floor.  Exiting the lift to your left you will find the Salesforce office

Date: Wed Jan 23 18:30:00 UTC 2013

 

IMPORTANT This is a SkillsMatter event, we are just helping, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/scaling-the-use-of-scala-lessons-learned-from-a-year-of-using-scala-on-a-larger-project

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Scaling the Use of Scala: lessons learned from a year of using Scala on a larger project

 

Adopting Scala on a larger project with a bigger team is a different experience from using Scala on smaller projects with small teams. The expressiveness of Scala, the ability to achieve the same result in many different ways is one of the languages strengths, but it also poses a unique set of challenges for bigger teams with varying levels of Scala experience. This talk will approach some of the challenges and pitfalls based on the experience of a long term real life project/programme. The talk will hopefully give the audience a feel for how to get Java developers cross-skilled into Scala, common Scala project challenges as a team grows and how to solve them, stylistic choices, patterns- and anti-patterns that may be useful to be aware of.

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/scaling-the-use-of-scala-lessons-learned-from-a-year-of-using-scala-on-a-larger-project

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Wed Dec 12 18:30:00 UTC 2012

 

IMPORTANT This is a SkillsMatter event, we are just helping, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/correctly-and-efficiently-combining-concurrency-abstractions

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Correctly and Efficiently Combining Concurrency Abstractions

 

 

Actors have become a commonly used abstraction for concurrent and parallel programming in Scala. However, many real-world systems and applications combine actors with other concurrency abstractions, such as futures, or threads and shared-memory synchronization constructs.

This talk explores pitfalls of typical combinations and provides some advice on ensuring their correctness and efficiency.

 

Philipp Haller has been a member of the Scala team since 2006. His research at EPFL on concurrent programming with race-free actors in Scala has been published in leading conferences, winning a best paper award. He is the creator of Scala's first act.

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

 

Typesafe's Fast Track to Akka

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/correctly-and-efficiently-combining-concurrency-abstractions

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Sat Dec 08 10:00:00 UTC 2012

Following on from the successful hackathon with the London Scala community, we are inviting all those interested in functional programming, play framework, MongoDB, Heroku & Force.com to get together and get creative.

LSug members started building a new website to manage their community, so you can either join in with that project or build your own web application or service.  We are inviting members from outside the London Scala community as many technical challenges and techniques are common regardless of language (github pull requests, using MongoDB, etc).

 

Rough Schedule
10.00am - Find the Salesforce office in Tower42, refreshments after your adventure
10.15am - Discuss your application ideas & how to build them.
10.45am - Split into groups and get going
12.30pm - Lunch time (sandwiches and drinks provided)
01.00pm - Keep on hacking until you have had enough

Important: Access details

Please ensure your full name is used when registering as this is needed by building security to let you in.

Finding the office in Tower42

As you enter Tower42, take the escalators to the building reception. Upon giving your name you will receive a visitor pass for the building.

Go to the far right and go through building security, your bag will be scanned and you pass through a metal detector.

Once through security, take the escalators immediately to your left - following the blue path. Walk all the way round to blue lifts and take the lift to the 24th floor (its the only option).

At the 24th floor, get out of the lift and cross the hallway. Take the blue lifts to the 27th floor. Exiting the lift to your left you will find the Salesforce office.

Date: Mon Dec 03 18:30:00 UTC 2012

 

IMPORTANT This is a SkillsMatter event, we are just helping, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-liftweb-for-web-development

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Scala and LiftWeb for Web Development

 

 

 

 

Franz will be presenting his experiences with Liftweb and Netty, as well as Web-Development with Scala in general. He will explain how Scala has enabled him to produce meaningful, stable and performing code and why it is endless fun for him!

The first part will cover a variety of topics ranging from Liftweb's amazing features and (few) weaknesses. You will be discovering Liftweb's frontend features like Comet-support and Desinger-friendly templates as well as how to draw a customizing Menu out of Lift's SiteMap.

The second part will be about using Netty out of Scala. You will be exploring ways to use Netty's low-level approach to deal with HTTP connections and how to use them out of Akka Actors. In-depth session on Long-Polling, Comet and WebSocket requests!

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

David Pollak's Lift Basics Workshop

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-liftweb-for-web-development

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Sat Oct 27 09:00:00 UTC 2012

 

LSUG Website Hack Day

Put a day aside for hacking on and in Scala.

Our big idea is to create a web site that we can use as a replacement for the current meetup site. This will allow us to promote all events, not just ones being organised via Meetup.

The plan for the day is to split into groups, based on what everyone is interested in and complete the components for the website.

The initial groups could be:

• Transfer of data from Meetup API to MongoDB (maybe using akka)
• Basic web site using Play2
• Authentication and allow people to subscribe to an event.
• Deployment to Heroku
• Frontend design and development

Please leave comments and suggestions for the day below and we can then have a better idea of what everyone wants from the day.

Feel free to suggest other ideas that you might want to discuss and work on with others.

 

 

Date: Sat Sep 29 12:00:00 UTC 2012

Saturday Study Group for Functional Programming Principles in Scala

If you have not already done so, register for the course https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

 

This is only a convenient place for us to meet up. There is no talks or organised activity.

End time is when everybody is happy to finish rather than a fixed time.

 

Location:

Floor 1, Barbican Center

 

Map of Floor1: http://www.barbican.org.uk/general/venue-maps.asp?i=4

 

If you dont know anybody then look for a Scala book on the table.

 

One thing to consider is that there is limited power points so please charge your laptop before coming. (Wifi works ok, but may want to think about working offline)

 

Please leave comments on how you would like this changed, maybe different start time.

 

Please remember the Coursera Honor Code when helping others.

 

Date: Thu Sep 27 17:30:00 UTC 2012

 

IMPORTANT This is a SkillsMatter event, we are just helping, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/starting-with-play-2-0-and-how-to-build-non-blocking-apps

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Working with databases in Scala using SLICK / ScalaQuery

 

 

 

Sick of heavy web application frameworks with endless amounts of boilerplate code?

Play 2.0 combines the ease of Rails with the power of the JVM into a web application framework that makes it fun to do web applications again.

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

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/starting-with-play-2-0-and-how-to-build-non-blocking-apps

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Wed Sep 26 17:30:00 UTC 2012

 

IMPORTANT This is a SkillsMatter event, we are just helping, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/composable-pipelines-as-a-pattern-in-scala-asynchronous-and-exception-handling-code-simplified

 

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Composable Pipelines as a Pattern in Scala: Asynchronous and Exception-Handling Code Simplified

 

This talk explores how a common pattern, composable pipelines, can express asynchronicity and exception-handling in a clear, concise, and type-safe way. Using the new futures API of Scala 2.10 (also known as SIP-14), we show how this pattern can simplify asynchronous code, including the mechanics of integrating futures into existing code. As a second application of composable pipelines we consider exception-handling code. Tying everything together, we show how to use these two different types of composable pipelines to build asynchronous services which are robust and scalable.

 

Philipp Haller is a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University, USA, and at EPFL, Switzerland. He holds a Dipl.-Inform. degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL, Switzerland. As a member of the Scala team at EPFL he has been working on programming abstractions for concurrency, as well as type systems to check their safety. Philipp created Scala Actors, a library for efficient, high-level concurrent programming.

 

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/composable-pipelines-as-a-pattern-in-scala-asynchronous-and-exception-handling-code-simplified

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Tue Sep 25 17:30:00 UTC 2012

 

IMPORTANT This is a SkillsMatter event, we are just helping, please sign up at:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/working-with-databases-in-scala-using-slick-scalaquery

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Working with databases in Scala using SLICK / ScalaQuery

 

 

 

 

SLICK, the Scala Language Integrated Connection Kit, is a framework for connecting to databases (both relational and NoSQL) and other data sources. It integrates them seamlessly into Scala, so that stored and remote data can be queried and processed in the same way as in-memory data using plain Scala classes and collections.

This talk will give an overview over SLICK and give examples how you can use it to create and query rational databases.

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **

Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/working-with-databases-in-scala-using-slick-scalaquery

failure to do so may result in not obtaining a seat. Please register on the Meetup.com "I'm going" to only let the others in the group know your going.

 

If this is your first time to SkillsMatter, directions are:  http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us

 

 

Date: Sat Sep 22 12:00:00 UTC 2012

Saturday Study Group for Functional Programming Principles in Scala

If you have not already done so, register for the course https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

 

This is only a convenient place for us to meet up. There is no talks or organised activity.

End time is when everybody is happy to finish rather than a fixed time.

 

Location:

Floor 1, Barbican Center

 

Map of Floor1: http://www.barbican.org.uk/general/venue-maps.asp?i=4

 

If you dont know anybody then look for a Scala book on the table.

 

One thing to consider is that there is limited power points so please charge your laptop before coming. (Wifi works ok, but may want to think about working offline)

 

Please leave comments on how you would like this changed, maybe different start time.

 

Please remember the Coursera Honor Code when helping others.

 

Date: Fri Sep 21 17:00:00 UTC 2012

Friday Study Group for Functional Programming Principles in Scala

If you have not already done so, register for the course https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

 

This is only a convenient place for us to meet up. There is no talks,organised activity.

End time is when everybody is happy to finish rather than a fixed time.

 

Location:

Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

(If Level5 is closed etc, then Level4 Blue Side)

 

If you dont know anybody then look for a Scala book on the table.

 

One thing to consider is that there is limited power points so please charge your laptop before coming. (Wifi works well, I'm currently using it to write this description)

 

Please remember the Coursera Honor Code when helping others.

 

Please leave comments on how you would like this changed, maybe different start time.

 

Date: Wed Sep 12 17:30:00 UTC 2012

 

IMPORTANT Sign up at skillsmatter:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/making-big-data-small-streaming-algorithms-in-scala

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Making Big Data Small: Streaming Algorithms in Scala

 

In this talk I'll discuss a class of algorithms,
streaming algorithms, that allow real-time processing of data, scale
extraordinarily well, and are simple to implement. Streaming
algorithms were developed to handle data capacities that exceed our
ability to store them (e.g. the Large Hadron Collider) but turn out to
be a great fit for small teams that want to move quickly on data
analysis projects.

In this talk I'll describe the Bloom filter and Count-Min sketch for
counting item occurrence and heavy hitter and quantile algorithms for
estimating frequency information. If there is time and interest I
might discuss lock-free stochastic gradient descent for learning
classifiers and recommendation systems

Noel has over fifteen years experience in software architecture
and development, and over a decade in machine learning and data
mining. Examples of the projects he’s been involved with include one
of the first commercial products to apply machine learning to the
Internet (eventually acquired by Omniture), a BAFTA award winning
website, and a custom CMS used daily by thousands of students. His
latest ventures are Scala consultancy at Underscore
(underscoreconsulting.com) and data analysis and machine learning at
Myna (mynaweb.com)

Noel is an active writer, presenter, and open source contributor. Noel
has a PhD in machine learning from the University of Birmingham.

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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Date: Fri Aug 31 18:00:00 UTC 2012

JAX London 2012

15-17 October

 

To enter: email: raffle@jaxlondon.com with you 'LSUG JAXLondon Raffle' as the subject.  Please include your first and last name.

 

Full event details can be found at JAXLondon.com but Scala interest talks are:

• Scaling up and out with Akka - Heiko Seeberge
• Play Framework 2 - Peter Hilton
• Improving MapReduce: Scala and GridGain To The Rescue! - Nikita Ivanov
• Scala in Action - Heiko Seeberger
• MongoDB on the JVM - Brendan McAdams
• and our very own John Stevenson with "Clojure made simple"

Keynote this year is by Brian Goetz.

 

Thanks to JAX for donating a ticket.

 

Note: This is only an entry ticket, travel etc is not included. Sam's judgement is final.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: Wed Jul 11 17:30:00 UTC 2012

 

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Type classes, monads, etc. - functional programming in Scala can be simple!

I am quite excited how elegantly we can solve IO-bound problems like DB access with this new set of tools Scala and functional programming provides.
I've recently built a simple Cassandra client using actors, type classes and monads while migrating one of our systems at Zeebox from Amazon S3 to Cassandra.
It is simple and elegant (I believe :)) and it shows the real power of the language. So no more Java-like code written in Scala - It is functional but simple and powerful. 

Until recently, I was scared myself whenever I've heard the phrase "type class" let alone monad or theory of categories. I realised that all it is, is just that mathematicians tend to overcomplicate things hiding it behind theorems and proofs. Real life examples of monoids, monads or type classes can be quite simple and understandable for everybody.

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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Date: Wed Jun 13 17:30:00 UTC 2012

 

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How we built and delivered a real-world Scala project in a highly agile, multi-language environment with a team of mixed experience Scala developers. A tour through what we did, how we did it and what we learnt along the way.

A rough breakdown of my initial thoughts on the structure, something along the lines of:

• Overview of the project
• Team background
• Technologies chosen
• Scala in an agile environment
• Working with developers new to Scala
• Mixing Scala with Java
• Challenges faced
• A look at some of the code and patterns
• What we learnt
• The final result
• What we would do different next time

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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Date: Fri Apr 27 09:00:00 UTC 2012

 

Progressive Java Tutorials

Skills Matter is running the the first Progressive Java Tutorials on May 3-4, the annual JVM conference offering a unique blend of product and experience mixed, and tempered with theory and practice. The Progressive Java Tutorials conference will feature talks and hands-on tutorials from leading experts in the JVM world, presenting a contemporary Java use-case or technology.  Experts include Jan Machacek, Viktor Klang, Tobias Ivarsson, Jon Jagger, Anirvan Chakraborty, Kito Mann, and Brian Sletten.

 

Tickets are £325+VAT -- but the good folks at Skills Matter have given the London Scala Users Group two tickets to give away.

All you have to do to enter is RSVP and two winners will be chosen at random, each receiving a free ticket to the Progressive Java Tutorials!

 

The winners will be contacted on Friday morning so they can check time-off-work etc

 

Viktor Klang: Future Scala Futures
With Scala Improvement Proposal (SIP) 14, Scala's Futures will get a big upgrade with the new Future and Promise APIs. In this tutorial we will explore Futures and Promises using the new APIs and how they can be used to compose asynchronous dataflow - creating pipelines of transformation. We'll see how Futures can be used in for-comprehensions, how to gracefully handle failure, how to avoid blocking operations and get a glimpse into the implementation. We'll get our hands dirty and learn by examples, mixed with presentation-style explaining of how things fit together.

Jan Machacek: Polyglot applications in Java and Spring

Jan Machacek will show why you should use the most appropriate language for your Java enterprise application. Discover why it is a really good idea to combine Java with another language. Jan's code will show just how easy it is to use Scala and Java in one project; and the reasons why you might do the same in your projects.
Jan will show that you do not need to throw away your existing experience or code, but rather that you can build on it to deliver much more functionality in less time, integrate into your existing infrastructure, and -- most importantly -- have fun programming again.

 

Brian Sletten: Moving Beyond Objects

In this session, we will explore REST and its implications on a resource-oriented environment that embraces it like NetKernel. We will look at what URI-addressability does for us and how we can leverage the open standards of the Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) to do amazingly powerful things with precious few lines of code.

David Morgantini & Akash Bhalla: Exploring enterprise Java outside of Java EE

The goal of this session is the give participants a quick introduction into Java enterprise development without using the heavy weight tools and process that come with Spring & Java EE. The session will be a hands on test-driven journey through writing a rich web application using Simple Framework and a NoSQL backend. The session will be based on lessons learnt during the building of a large system for a ThoughtWorks client.

 

Anirvan Chakraborty: Connecting to Neo4j using Spring Data

Anirvan's Progressive Java track will show how to use Spring Data Neo4j to build a Spring-based web application based on the graph database Neo4j. The session will begin with a short introduction into Spring Data Neo4j and follow that up by building a 'User Management System' using Neo4j.

 

Kito Mann: Full Stack Java EE

It’s time to take another look at Java EE. In addition to minor updates in EJB 3.1 and JPA, JSF 2 and Servlet 3 are major updates that embrace convention or configuration and provide many features that simplify development. This session with Kito Mann will provide an overview of the different parts of Java EE 6 and show you can quickly you can build a complete web application with ease.

 

Jon Jagger:CyberDojo

A CyberDojo is a great practice environment for learning about coding, test driven development, team dynamics, and collaboration. The aim of a CyberDojo is to collaborate collectively towards working solutions on all laptops.

Date: Thu Apr 19 17:30:00 UTC 2012

 

We have a FULL HOUSE

Please check SkillsMatter site for lastminute spaces

 

IMPORTANT Sign up at skillsmatter:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-intro

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Question: Do you know Scala?

If yes then you should be going to ScalaDays 2012 on 17/18th April, details:-

( "Early bird" registrations will be available until 5th March )

 

If no, then read on.....

Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala, has agreed to give a session on the basics of Scala and an overview of the features that make Scala interesting for Java developers.

The plan is for Martin to give an introduction of what Scala is, how best to get started. So if your new to Scala or have joined the group but have never used it then this should be a good evening to come to.

As there will be lots of people going then another reminder that you need to sign-up with SkillsMatter. 

If you know the difference between val and var this may not be for you

 

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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Date: Wed Mar 14 18:30:00 UTC 2012

 

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A client asked me to convert one XML format to another. I was relegated to Java during the day and as I was missing my lovely lightweight TDD Scala coding, I didnt even consider XSLT. I simply added anti-xml to my sbt build and got stuck in.

 

This talk is the journey I went through over 3 days test-driving this work using Specs2. In particular I will focus on how I went about testing and the issues I faced in asserting the expected xml.

 

I will also talk about what I might do differently now, given a little more time, and suggest additions to the anti-xml library to have made my job even easier.

We will, as always, also be heading to the  Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

 

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Date: Wed Feb 08 18:30:00 UTC 2012

 

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http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/spring-in-scala

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In this Spring in Scala talk, Jan Machacek will start by comparing Scala to the other languages on the Java platform. Find out that Scala code gets compiled to regular Java bytecode, making it accessible to your Spring code. You will also learn what functional programming means and how to see & apply the patterns of functional programming in what we would call enterprise code. In addition to being functional language, Scala is strongly typed language. 

The second part of the talk will therefore explore the principles of type systems. You will find out what polymorphic functions are, and what the Scala wizards mean when they talk about type covariance and contravariance. Throughout the talk, there will be plenty of code examples comparing the Spring bean in Java with their new form in Scala; together with plentiful references to the ever-growing Scala ecosystem, the talk will give you inspiration & guidance on using Scala in your Spring applications. Come over and find your functional mojo!

 

Jan Macháček is the technical director at Cake Solutions, highly experienced Java enterprise architect, consultant and developer with very strong technical and team management skills. Alongside several articles, Jan has authored 4 books; the most notable ones are Pro Spring and Pro Spring 2.5. He regularly speaks at conferences and developer events in the UK and abroad and he is the editor of the Open Source Journal. In his spare time, Jan likes to explore new programming languages and experiment with microcontrollers. Jan also competes in time trials and road races as a member of the Manchester Wheelers’ Cycling Club.

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the  Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

 

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Date: Wed Jan 18 18:30:00 UTC 2012

 

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ScalaTest, Specs2 and ScalaCheck allow us to write concise and powerful tests, but we've been stuck with Java mocking frameworks (EasyMock, JMock, Mockito) that don't really understand Scala. Mocking first-class functions, currying and other Scala-specific features has been difficult or impossible.

ScalaMock, designed and implemented from the ground up in Scala, changes all that. In addition, it brings PowerMock-style features like mocking object creation (constructor invocation) and companion objects (static methods).

We will, as always, also be heading to the  Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

 

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Date: Thu Nov 24 18:30:00 UTC 2011

 

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Brendan (@rit) is responsible for the scala toolkits (Casbah  and Hammersmith ) for MongoDB one of the leading nosql databases around. In this talk he is going to give an overview of how to use scala with MongoDB

Please note: that due to Brendan having to return to the States soon (and is 101 other things he has to do), we have agreed to take over what was going to be a more general talk he was going to do this night and its now going to be more Scala orientated (please don't tell out Clojure friend :-), so the skillsmatter web site does not quite match the description here.

We will, as always, also be heading to the  Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

 

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Date: Thu Oct 13 17:30:00 UTC 2011

 

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This is an informal session with Timothy Perrett, author of Lift in Action, the latest and most comprehensive book about Lift. This talk is the first public demonstration of his latest pet project: Helix.

Scala Helix is a central directory of all the projects within the Scala ecosystem and the project itself is built using Lift, Akka and MongoDB. During this talk you'll hear how in a very short space of time the system was assembled and made ready for use, and see first hand how different parts of the system are put together.

This talk includes short presentation and demonstration, followed promptly by Q&A / open floor in order for attendees to ask questions about certain features or design choices.

We will, as always, also be heading to the  Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

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Date: Tue Oct 11 17:30:00 UTC 2011

 

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Two days before Scala LiftOff David Pollak, the Lift project creator, will explore Lift and how Lift apps are different.

 

The Lift Web Framework offers a different approach to building web based applications. Lift apps are secure, high performance, and concise. Lift approaches web development differently in order to achieve these goals. Lift apps look different and focus on the business logic rather than the plumbing of servicing HTTP requests. In this talk, David Pollak, the Lift project creator, explores Lift and as a group we'll see what's In his Brain.

We will, as always, also be heading to the  Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

 

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Date: Wed Sep 14 17:30:00 UTC 2011

 

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http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/practical-scalaz-2518

 

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( This is the rescheduled talk from last month)

Previous talks have concentrated on the fundamentals and construction of the scalaz library. This talk will concentrate on using Scalaz to help make certain tasks easier and to avoid repeating yourself. We will see practical uses of endomorphisms, monoids, applicative functors and realize that they are the sort of thing we use every day, whether we know what to call them or not. The focus will be on using the library, not understanding its internals!

 

 

Chris Marshall ( @oxbow_lakes) is one of the four scala gold-badged users on StackOverflow, although he is unique in being the only undeserving recipient. He has been programming commercially for 14 years, briefly in FORTRAN and Smalltalk, then Java (since 1999) and in Scala (since late 2008) after his patience finally wore out. With over 12 years financial IT experience, he has been in his dream job for GSA, a small, technology-driven hedge fund since 2006 and prior to that spent six years at JPMorgan working for the rates business. In his spare time, he likes to fail to get through “The Essence of the Iterator Pattern”, which he has now managed almost 500 times.
Chris is most famous in the Scala world for the “ the longest suicide note in history”

 

 

 

 

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the  Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

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Date: Wed Jul 20 17:30:00 UTC 2011

 

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http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/lsug-with-kevin-wright

 

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Kevin (Wright) will go some helpful tips on making you Scala code more Scala and less Java looking. (more details to follow.)

 

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb pub afterwards.

Note this is one week later than usual as Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin) has taken our room for the night

 

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Date: Wed May 11 17:30:00 UTC 2011

 

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http://skillsmatter.com/event-details/home/scala-patterns/js-1710

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Jon Pretty from Scala Technology is going to give a whirlwind tour of design patterns in Scala, including (but not limited to) Utility Belt, Pimp-my-library, algebraic data types, Concept and Cake.

Jon launched the very first commercial Scala applications in 2005 and named the Cake Pattern in an email conversation with Martin Odersky.

 

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Date: Sat Apr 30 11:00:00 UTC 2011

SkillsMatter have kindly given us a ticket for the Scala eXchange 2011 to be held on 15th and 16th June. This two day event is being finalised but already has Martin Odersky as the keynote speaker with also  James Strachan (Groovy), Viktor Klang (Akka), Chris Marshall and Jason Zaugg. More and full details of the day can be found at http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-exchange-2011

Now for the competition. Who would you like to see at a Scala event?

As this is a fantasy guest list then could be anybody, maybe Bill Venners, Paul Phillips, Tony Morris or somebody from EPFL the choice is yours. The only exception is Martin (Odersky), that would be just toooo easy.

To enter, use the 'I'm Going' button and put the name of your chosen speaker, with a reason ie 'Bill Venners - ScalaTest'

 

The winner will be picked at random at the end of the month. 

Normal rules. this is only entry to the event, you have to pay for travel, beer etc.

 

Date: Wed Apr 13 17:30:00 UTC 2011

 

IMPORTANT Sign up at skillsmatter:
http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-miscellany

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For April we now have four talks or discussions, (thanks to everybody for volunteering at short notice). The talks so far are, in no particular order :

• Fernando Racca - scala in financial domain
• Richard Dallaway -Having a scala skills board for lsug
• John Watson - moving to scala with real time XML data feeds
• Wille Faler - on Bowler Framework

For a better description of what the talks are about then is better to looks at the comments on the event page (lsug.net/events/17017950) as the speakers will know much better than I will

 

If you had already signed up for the original Russ Miles talk then there is no need to sign up at skills matter again, they already have your details and will be carried over.

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Russ Miles, who was to do next months lsug talk, has had to cancel and we hope he can do it at a latter date.
This gives us a chance to do something different for next month. If we can get three or four people to volunteer to so a short talk, this could be a lightning talk or something a bit longer say 20 mins, then we will do that in April. The subject can be anything providing it has come connection to scala, from 'This is the project I'm working on', 'I like this package', or 'this is how I solved a problem' its up to you.
If you want a short talk on something then email the group, you may be luck and somebody may know it and want that little push to do something.
Also if you can think of something else that could fit in with this format for next month, and willing to help make it work. then, again, email the group and we'll see if we can add it to the evening.
Hope that sounds interesting  andy

 

Date: Thu Mar 10 18:30:00 UTC 2011

 

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This talk is intended for developers who have already tried scala and wondered what it’s like to be on the functional side of the programming. In this talk we'll cover main functional concepts as well as their practical application. We'll finish with an example of how scalaz can be used in real world projects, such as Camel.

 

This is on a Thursday for this month only, as there is a Closure talk on Wednesday, 
hope you can make both.  

 

 

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Date: Wed Feb 09 18:30:00 UTC 2011

 

 

 

 

IMPORTANT Sign up at skillsmatter:
http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/cloud-computing-with-scala-and-gridgain-895/rl-311

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The topic of this presentation is about using Scala programming language with GridGain framework to provide a simple and productive cloud computing platform. 

Scala is a hybrid function and object-oriented language that is rapidly gaining traction in becoming the “next” Java in JVM-based language evolution. GridGain is one of the most rapidly growing cloud development platforms for JVM-based languages.

2/3 of the presentation will be devoted to live coding demonstration of writing basic MapReduce application in Scala using GridGain middleware. All coding during demonstration will be done live. Overview of grid and cloud computing concepts as well as notion of Native Cloud Applications will be discussed. Short intro into Scala language will also be provided.

What problems/challenges will an attendee learn to solve by attending your session?
Attendee will learn how to use Scala - one of the most exciting JVM-based languages - to quickly and efficiently build cloud-enabled applications. They will also learn on how to quickly build simple MapReduce application using GridGain framework.

What will attendees learn by attending your session?
Attendees will learn:
How to build and run simple Scala MapReduce application
How to start and configure GridGain
How to cloud-enable the existing Scala code using GridGain to run it on the cloud

Who should attend your session?
Java developers with a proficient level of Java expertise
Scala developers of all levels
Developers interested in practical aspects of cloud computing

What basics should attendees know before attending your session?
Working knowledge of Java
Basic understanding of distributed programming concepts
No Scala or cloud computing experience is required

About 1/3 of the presentation will be devoted to overview of grid and cloud computing as well as crash-course into Scala programming language. 2/3 of the presentation will be devoted to a live, hands-on coding demonstration of building simple MapReduce applications in Scala using GridGain.

 

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**IMPORTANT READ ME TO REGISTER **
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Date: Wed Jan 12 18:30:00 UTC 2011

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guardian.co.uk is largely a Java development shop. We implemented our new Content API (http://content.guardi...) as our first project in Scala, starting at the beginning of 2010. I'll talk about how we managed the transition and how we learnt scala as a team, with lots of practical examples and code samples.


The Guardian's Open Platform initiative enables partners to build applications with The Guardian. As part of this initiative, The Guardian provides the Content API - a rich interface to all The Guardian's content and metadata back to 1991 - over 1 million documents. This talk starts with a brief overview of the latest iteration of the content API. It will then cover how we implemented this in Scala using Solr, addressing real-world problems in creating an index of content:
how we represented a complex relational database model in Solr
how we keep the index up to date, meeting a sub-5 minute end-to-end update requirement
how we update the schema as the API evolves, with zero downtime
how we scale in response to unpredictable demand, using cloud services

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Date: Mon Dec 06 18:30:00 UTC 2010

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Iulian Dragos is a key member of Martin Odersky’s EPFL's Scala team and Scala Solutions company. He has been the main contributor for many critical Scala components including the compiler backend, its optimizer and has just completed his PhD thesis in 'Compiling Scala for Performance'.


Before 2.8, the scala compiler compiled generic classes using type erasure, just like Java. However, there is a significant performance drop for primitive types: in order to satisfy the JVM requirements, primitive values need to be boxed when they enter generic code.

Boxing means wrapping a primitive value in a heap-allocated object. Whenever code operates on such values, it needs first to extract the value from the object, operate on it, then box it back.

Specialization ensures that boxing does not happen, by generating specialized versions of generic code.

Performance improvements may reach an order of magnitude.

In this talk Iulian will look at several specialized classes in the standard library, he will explain how specialization works, the benefits and some potential traps.

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Date: Tue Nov 16 18:30:00 UTC 2010

This is our monthly informal social gathering which incorporates members of London Scala User Group, The London Java Community & Graduate Development Community.

The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month in a private room at the Lvpo bar in Soho http://www.lvpo.co.uk... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 PM with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights. Free platters of food will be provided.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community (and convert them to Scalaists). It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels.

Date: Wed Nov 10 18:30:00 UTC 2010

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Doors open at 6pm for general chat over coffee, tea and biscuits. Workshop will start at 6.30pm

There is a great deal of interest in Simple Build Tool (SBT) for managing Scala and JVM based projects, as an alternative to Maven, Ant, etc.

SBT creates a standard structure for projects and manages dependencies (like Maven2), but the build can be defined using Scala (unlike Maven2). You can also do neat things like continuous testing, running your test on each save and getting lots of feedback. SBT also tries to determine the minimum set of dependent sources that need to be recompiled each time, reducing rebuild times.

The evening will be a collaborative workshop with a few lightening or short specific talks and preferably code-alongs and other very practical stuff. Lots of tips and trick to be shared by those who attend the event. Topic ideas include:

• Using SBT on the command line
  
• Using SBT with your favourite IDE
  
• Setting up an SBT project - tips and tricks
  
• Using SBT continuous compilation, testing and deployment
  
• Specify build recipes via Scala - say goodbye to XML?
  
• Including testing frameworks in SBT (JUnit, Hamcrest, ScalaTest, Specs, etc)
  
• Working with mixed Scala/Java projects
  
• What is not so good in SBT and how to work round it
  

One goal of the night would be to convert the Scala coding dojo environment to SBT and get the test on save function working well so we can get a lot more feedback during the dojo. As an added bonus, getting SBT to work with the Fast Scala Compiler (FSC) and a Scala testing framework

If you want to do a specific talk / demo / practical session, please let the LSug organisers know via the meetup site or the LSug mailing list.

If you have any other ideas of practical stuff we can do with SBT, please share via the LSug mailing list or comment on the meetup site event page.

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Date: Tue Oct 19 17:30:00 UTC 2010

This is our monthly informal social gathering which incorporates members of London Scala User Group, The London Java Community & Graduate Development Community.

The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month in a private room at the Lvpo bar in Soho http://www.lvpo.co.uk... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 PM with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights. Free platters of food will be provided.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community (and convert them to Scalaists). It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels.

Date: Wed Oct 13 17:30:00 UTC 2010

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We believe that writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications is too hard. Most of the time it's because we are using the wrong tools and the wrong level of abstraction. Akka is here to change that. Akka is using the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications. For fault-tolerance it adopts the "Let it crash" model which have been used with great success in the Telecom industry to build applications that self-heals, systems that never stop. Akka's Remote Actors, backed by a scalable non-blocking IO implementation, provides the abstraction for transparent distribution and the basis for truly scalable and fault-tolerant applications. In this talk you will learn what Akka is, how it can be used to solve hard problems and the ideas behind its design and implementation. Akka is available at http://akkasource.org...

Jonas Boner is a programmer, teacher, mentor, speaker and author who spends most of his time consulting, hacking on open source as well as lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world-wide. He has worked at Terracotta, the JRockit JVM at BEA and is an active contributor to the Open Source community; most notably created the Akka Project, AspectWerkz Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) framework, committer to the Terracotta JVM clustering technology and been part of the Eclipse AspectJ team. Blog: http://jonasboner.com...

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Date: Thu Oct 07 17:30:00 UTC 2010

The London Scala User Group and Skills Matter are proud to co-organise an exciting evening of Questions & Answers with Martin Odersky, the inventor of Scala programming language, Jonas Boner who is a well regarded expert on Actor models such as Akka, and David Pollak, the inventor of the Lift web framework for Scala.

This event will be a rare opportunity to hear these thought leaders discuss Scala and functional programming language concepts, challenges and future directions. It will be your chance to pose your own questions and to hear the thoughts of others regarding the Scala ecosystem.

So if you can't make it to the Scala LiftOff unconference, you can still get a taste of that experience at this free evening event.

Please register at SkillsMatter so they buy enough beer and pizza for everyone: http://skillsmatter.c...

Hope to see you there!

Date: Tue Sep 21 17:30:00 UTC 2010

This is our monthly social gathering which incorporates members of The London Java Community, Graduate Development Communities, London Scala User Group & OSGi Users’ Forum UK. This month we're doing things a bit differently:

In 2008 Andrew Glover wrote an article asking if Clojure of Scala were poised for stardom: http://www.javaworld..... Two years on we now have two very successful and growing communities running active dojos. Having recently heard that both have been adopted into a variety of companies in London, including large investment banks, it seems a good time to start asking the question again.... this time over a few drinks.... in a bar in Soho....

Therefore for this months pub event we will be asking the question are you Clojure or are you Scala? We will have no formal presentation or slides, but we will be attracting prominent members from each community to come along, so if you've got an opinion on the matter, or you just want to come along and find out what the fuss is about then come along and get involved.

Here is the standard info:

The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month in a private room at the Lvpo bar in Soho http://www.lvpo.co.uk.... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights. Free platters of food will be provided.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community. It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels, I'll also be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it's a great chance to come along for a chat.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community (and convert them to Scalaists). It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels.

Date: Wed Sep 08 17:30:00 UTC 2010

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Following the release of 'ScalaIDE for Eclipse' for Scala 2.8, Miles Sabin, the main contributor and lead for the ScalaIDE, will be demonstrating some of the new features that are now included in the Eclipse plugin. and give an idea on what is planned for future versions.
If there is sufficient time at the end he will also show some under-the-hood coding of just how the ide work and how others can contribute.

The ScalaIDE for Eclipse, now has its own dedicated web site at: scala-ide.org where you can also find the source code and mailing lists.

Miles can be reached at www.chuusai.com for all the Scala help you need.

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Date: Tue Aug 17 17:30:00 UTC 2010

This is our monthly informal social gathering which incorporates members of London Scala User Group, The London Java Community & Graduate Development Community.

The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month in a private room at the Lvpo bar in Soho http://www.lvpo.co.uk... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 PM with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights. Free platters of food will be provided.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community (and convert them to Scalaists). It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels.

Date: Wed Aug 11 17:30:00 UTC 2010

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In this talk we'll look into features of one of the emerging web frameworks Play! ( http://www.playframew...) There will be a quick overview of the Java side and then we will dig into Scala part and framework modules.
In the final part we will build a simple application using play Scala.

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Date: Tue Jul 27 17:30:00 UTC 2010

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Due to popular demand we are planning something a bit different for July. For the first time the LJC will be holding an evening of Lightning talks on subjects of the moment within the London Java Community. This will be a fast paced exciting evening where you will get exposure to an eclectic mix of speakers and topics from our community in London. If this is a successful event we will organise more in the future.

All of our speakers will be members of the LJC. Each talk will be around 5 minutes long with time for questions.

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Date: Tue Jul 20 17:30:00 UTC 2010

This is our monthly informal social gathering which incorporates members of London Scala User Group, The London Java Community & Graduate Development Community.

The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month in a private room at the Lvpo bar in Soho http://www.lvpo.co.uk... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 PM with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights. Free platters of food will be provided.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community (and convert them to Scalaists). It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels.

Date: Wed Jul 14 17:30:00 UTC 2010

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During the talk, we will build a simple web app using Lift and then
introduce Akka to help scale it.
Specifically, we will demonstrate Remote Actors, "Let it crash" fail
over, and Dispatcher. Other Scala oriented tools we will use include
sbt and ENSIME mode for emacs.

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Date: Tue Jun 15 17:30:00 UTC 2010

***PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT ADDRESS FOR THIS EVENT ON THIS OCCASION***

This is our monthly social gathering which incorporates members of The London Java Community, Graduate Development Communities & London Scala User Group.

The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month - on this occasion we will be meeting here - http://thecrowntavern.... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community. It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels, I'll also be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it's a great chance to come along for a chat.

Date: Wed Jun 09 17:30:00 UTC 2010

To coincide with the Scala Course (http://bit.ly/auQmzJ...) that is being held at Skills Matters on Jun 9/10, Martin Odersky is to give a special talk for LSUG, and all scala enthusiasts in London on Jun 9.

So If you've ever had a question that you've ever wanted to ask Martin then now is the time to come alone and ask. This will certainly be very popular and seats are limited, so early registration would be a good idea. The Skills Matter registration page is:
http://skillsmatter.c...

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youDevise is a growing 50-person financial-software company in London - and we're hiring!

We want to talk to Scala developers because our production Java web application includes a Scala calculation engine that we are actively expanding.

Please visit https://dev.youdevise... or send a CV to jobs@youdevise.com if you are interested in finding out more!

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Date: Tue May 18 17:30:00 UTC 2010

This is our monthly informal social gathering which incorporates members of London Scala User Group, The London Java Community & Graduate Development Community.

The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month in a private room at the Lvpo bar in Soho http://www.lvpo.co.uk... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 PM with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights. Free platters of food will be provided and we have negotiated a happy hour for the duration of the evening.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community (and convert them to Scalaists). It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels.

Date: Mon May 10 17:30:00 UTC 2010

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Direct from the highly successful ScalaDays2010 conference we have an extended version of of the talks by Nigel and Channing.

Fly (www.flyobjectspace.com) is a lightweight Object Space that can distribute and coordinate information on clusters of computers in the form of Objects. It follows the form of Tuple Spaces in Linda and Java Spaces in Jini. Fly is language independent and hence can be bound into various programming languages via the development of specific language stubs that expose the interface to the Space to client programs.

In this paper we contrast and compare the interface of the Java Bindings with the development and design of the Scala bindings and interfaces, with particular reference to the introduction of Scala language specific features such as the use of Options and the Scala Actors model.

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Date: Tue Apr 20 17:30:00 UTC 2010

This is our monthly social gathering which incorporates members of the London Scala User Group, The London Java Community, Graduate Development Communities. We also use this event to run our Community Connections project.


The evening

We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of every month in a private room at the Lvpo bar in Soho http://www.lvpo.co.uk... The event kicks of at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until 11:30 with people coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 60 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members both junior and senior can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights. Free platters of food will be provided and we have negotiated a happy hour for the duration of the evening.

This is a chance to come along and meet and chat with other members of the London Technical Community. It is a great chance to meet other developers and has attracted members of all levels, I'll also be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it's a great chance to come along for a chat.


Community Connections

Thinking about trying a new language? Looking for help with a difficult technical problem? Considering getting into contracting?

We have a community across the two groups of over 1300 people. As part of a free service we use the event as a platform to connect people together within this vast community. If there is anything you would love to speak to a specialist about let me know in advance and I’ll try to find someone that I can introduce you to. PLEASE NOTE this is NOT a recruitment effort, moreover a chance to meet a mentor or specialist that may be able to offer support/guidance in a particular area. Previous introductions have been in these areas:

- Coding problems around a specific technology
- Recently graduated and looking for someone to give you industry advice
- Want to find out how to break into finance or contracting
- Interested to try a new language and want someone to suggest some good books
- Career / CV / Recruitment advice
- Looking for help for an open source project OR looking for an open source project and want advice on one to join
- Started interviewing people but want to discuss some new techniques
- Just new to London and want to meet some people with similar interests

So if there is something that you would like to find out about let me know – either complete the questions upon signing up to the event or just send me an e-mail with 'Introduction' in the subject title and I will endeavor to make an introduction (e.g. something on the list below).
Whatever your question just let me know.


Past Feedback:

“It was very nice, I was looking for a first hand experience and I got it. Basically his suggestions were what I was suspecting but it is good to have a confirmation from a person working on it. Anyway he suggested to collaborate in a finance open-source project what I have not thought before and I think it is very experience.”

“I'd say both the introductions were a success – they both had a lot to say about Agile techniques and a lot of experience to share. I definitely found it much more constructive having meetings organized”

DISCLAIMER: As this is a free service it’s something I can’t guarantee but where possible I’ll do what I can to connect you with people that can help for you to meet at the pub.

Date: Mon Apr 12 17:30:00 UTC 2010

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After last months trip into 'Lift' world (thanks to Richard) we are back to Scala land with a look into how it uses an enhanced version of the Java interfaces called traits. And how to
add new functionality to not only your own classes but also to existing Java classes.
This talk will go in depth on how to include multiple traits in a single class and why there is no multiple inheritance problems that have traditionally caused problems. as well has areas of pattern matching and generics.
If there is time, there will be a demo of Kevin's Autoproxy (http ://bit.ly/78yMej) plugin and how traits are used a part of this library.

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Date: Mon Mar 08 18:30:00 UTC 2010

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Lift is an open source framework for writing web applications in Scala.
London Scala User Group member Richard Dallaway will talk about his experiences using the framework, with the
aim of giving you an idea of what the framework is about, and how you can get started with it.

http://skillsmatter.c...

andy

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Date: Mon Feb 22 17:00:00 UTC 2010

This is intended to be just a get-together after the Scala Day part of the JAXLondon conference and go for a drink. (Maybe also food, but we'll see how things go on the day). This is based on the conference so all times etc will be based on when it is finished (should be about 5pm) and then just head to The Distillers (www.thedistillerspub.com).

This is intended for people going to jaxlondon, however all is welcome and you can always find out what you've missed :-)

Just a reminder, the details of the Scala Day can be found here:
jaxlondon.com/conferences/trackssessions/?tid=1584
and early bird discount end on 21Jan there is a lsug discout code: LSUG1 (5% extra discout)

andy

Date: Mon Feb 08 18:30:00 UTC 2010

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Colin (Howe) is going to present several java examples and talk people through how you might re-write these in Scala and get a lot of benefits from doing so.

Aimed at novices each example will have an interactive discussion with the audience and possible solution explored with pros and cons for the best Scala result.


andy


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Date: Wed Jan 20 19:00:00 UTC 2010

To start the ball rolling the first meetup is to return to its old haunt of The Dover Castle on Jan 20 at 7:00.


Being the first meetup its planned to be a social event where members can exchange war stories and learn from others.

It is also hoped that we can also plan ideas or suggestions for future events and direction of the LSUG, so would be an ideal time to come along and join in.


Hope to see you there


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