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April 10th, 2014, ISSUE 9

FEATURED

SBuild 0.7.5 released

It takes a while to get from Leipzig to Warsaw. Tobias Roeser decided to release a new version of SBuild while on way to the Scalar conference. Like that startup built by a London commuter! 
SBUILD

READING

Transitioning to Scala

We all know about Twitter and The Guardian running on Scala. They're cool, smart & run well on smartphones. But Walmart...? An advice from a dev who rebuilt Walmart with Scala and Play.
MEDIUM
Building Reactive Applications with Akka (in Scala)

Make a coffee. Sit comfortably. Prepare to absorb knowledge. Lots of knowledge. 
SLIDESHARE
Unifying Functional and Object-Oriented Programming with Scala

Let's not forget that Martin Odersky's a professor. Here, with Tiark Rompf from Oracle, they're discussing Scala's versatility and future use. You'll drink at least a few coffees during this.
ACM 
Pythagoras Theorem in Scala?

You would think this one would be easy. We all learn it during the primary school. Yet somebody there claims that "this only works on Scala 2.8, but it does work".
STACKOVERFLOW

CODE

Macro-based type providers for Scala

Eugene Burmako & Travis Brown spy on scientists. And deliver outstanding talks about macros. Here are the examples they've talked about at the Scalar conference. Useful to everyone!
GITHUB
Scala.js Ray Tracer

It seems that it takes forever to render, but do remember that Scala.js is still experimental.
GITHUB IO
Casbah 2.7 and Mongo DB 2.6

Yeah, we know that you were probably busy worrying about Heartbleed, but don't forget to rock the Casbah.  
MONGODB

EVENTS

LambdaConf - 19.04.2014, Boulder, Colorado

A conference that gives you 4 tracks with four 2-hour talks - a kind of mix of TED & a hackaton, we presume. Still, tell us how it was if you're going there!

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