Why You Should Never Catch Throwable in Scala

Or: Scala is a Subtle Beast. A nice name for a plugin or a library, by the way... A post about catching Throwable, a superclass of all exceptions.
SUMOLOGIC

Spray server in a Docker container

Docker is all the rage lately at Scala Times HQ. Check out our own Adam Warski's Spray & Docker combo!
WARSKI ORG

Scala for-comprehension with concurrently running futures

Describing Scala future using milk and flour. Or is it?
JAVA DZONE

Obtaining Geolocation in Play using IP Address

And it's really simple! 
KNOLDUS

No Magic: Regular Expressions

Here’s how I implemented a basic regular expression engine in under 200 lines of code.
SVBTLE

Extreme Machine Learning with GPUs

Ah, the versatility of Scala. The power, the power!
GPUTECHCONF

Scala, JavaFX, Java EE 7 and Enterprise Integration

This session shows how to build a Scala application with ScalaFX, a domain-specific language and framework, and tie it to an application that stores data to the cloud. It addresses the limitations of the technologies chosen to write the application. Finally, it also discusses the hot issue of the moment: Should I stick with the Spring Framework or dump it to go with the Java EE specification.
SOFTDEVTUBE

Gilt's Insane Traffic Made Them Switch to Scala, Win

Finally! Someone praising Scala! You probably know why Scala > Rails, but nevertheless it's worth seeing someone agree with us.
READWRITE

Trending Scala GitHub repos this week

Only one Code entry today, but we think it'd be a good idea to always start the Code section with the most hip repos out there. Grab your soy milk and enjoy this gluten-free code.
GITHUB

Scala in Depth

Deal of the day straight from Twitter: just enter dotd050814tw to get a -$20.00 discount. Sweet!
MANNING