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May 15th, 2014, ISSUE 13

READING

Functional Discrete Optimization @ Coursera with Scala

A review of that coursera Scala course. Check it out and watch for the next edition!
WARSKI ORG
CEP using Akka Streams

After the recent announcement of Akka Streams and watching Roland Kuhn’s webinar on it, I decided to give this a try and see what it would take to implement the same  trading algorithm I blogged about before but this time using Akka Streams. 
FRANKLYSAUER

Functional Patterns in Domain Modeling

Because anemic models are the cool kids now.
DEBASISHG

Scala - The Simple Parts

Martin Odersky on the 10 years of Scala - read this.
SLIDESHARE
Building Scala at Scale 

Over 600k lines of Scala and still going strong and productive. How? 
SUMOLOGIC
Building Blackbeard: A Syndication System Powered By Play, Scala and Akka

Arrr! NYTimes be plunderin' and hackin' ye Scalawagg dogs!
NYTIMES
Scala and The Winning-est MLB Nighttime Saturday Team

On using Scala to analyse baseball. Finally some tangible, real life use of Scala! 
KEVINALEXANDER

CODE

bitcoin-akka

A client to btcwallet, written in Scala and built on akka. Go, be a virtual cryptocurrency rebel! 
GITHUB
Scalite

An experimental whitespace-delimited syntax for the Scala programming language. Out with the curly braces! 
GITHUB
Where does Scala look for implicits?

An implicit question to newcomers to Scala seems to be: where does the compiler look for implicits? I mean implicit because the question never seems to get fully formed, as if there weren't words for it. :-) For example, where do the values for integral below come from?
STACKOVERFLOW





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