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  1. Scala Times Issue #606

    First class support for compilation profiling. Understanding Capture Checking in Scala. Laminar components inside React. Save your Scala apps from the LazyValpocalypse. To Effect or Not to Effect - a Scala Perspective.


  2. Scala Times Issue #24

    MacWire 0.7: dynamically accessing the object graph. The Wonders of Programming. Understanding and Implementing Laziness . A Reactive 3D Game Engine in Scala. Apache Spark + Typesafe = BFF.


  3. Scala Times Issue #23

    Composing Dependent Futures. Making the Internet of Things Manageable. Elixir Tasks vs Scala Futures. Why or Why Aren't You Using Scala. Trending Scala Repositories Today.


  4. Scala Times Issue #22

    Java vs. Scala: Divided We Fall. Scala Days 2014 presentation videos . Advanced Reactive Programming with Scala & Akka. Trending Scala Repositories Today. Scala.js & Facebook's React.


  5. Scala Times Issue #21

    Scala 2.12 roadmap. Akka 2.3.4 released. Scala collections flowchart. Integrating Google Drive in Play Scala application with Google+ API. Trending Scala Repositories Today.


  6. Scala Times Issue #20

    Scala is faster than Java. Option.fold() considered unreadable. Pearson correlation with Scalding. Trending Scala Repositories Today. Clash of the Lambdas.


  7. Scala Times Issue #19

    REST Test - Exploring DSL in Scala. Macroid - Scala for Android. Scala.js - what has it become and how is it used?. Testing Stateful Systems with ScalaCheck. Manage Large Amounts of Data with Iteratee.


  8. Scala Times Issue #18

    Amdahl's law says nothing about blocking operations. Handle Every Event in Your Akka Application. Reactive Queue with Akka Reactive Streams. A Year of Functional Programming. Play All Day: Enterprise Web Development with Play and Scala.


  9. Scala Times Issue #17

    Swift is a lot like Scala. Swift vs Scala [.pdf]. The No-framework Scala Dependency Injection Framework. Handling services that require explicit shutdown in Scala . Trending Scala Repositories Today.


  10. Scala Times Issue #16

    New Scala Worksheets in IntelliJ IDEA. Scalaz "For the Rest of Us". Play All Day Webinar Series. 47% of Java Pros are interested in Scala. Inside Codebrag: Angular, Grunt, Scala, Slick and Code Reviews.


  11. Scala Times Issue #15

    Scala 2.11.1 (urgent hotfix). Introduction to Writing Tests with ScalaTest. Scala Testing Webcast. Types Construction in Scala. Scala Talks by Heather Miller.


  12. Scala Times Issue #14

    Functional Discrete Optimization @ Coursera with Scala. CEP using Akka Streams. Functional Patterns in Domain Modeling. Scala - The Simple Parts. Building Scala at Scale .


  13. Scala Times Issue #13

    Play 2.3.0-RC1 released!. Why You Should Never Catch Throwable in Scala. Spray server in a Docker container. Scala for-comprehension with concurrently running futures. Obtaining Geolocation in Play using IP Address.


  14. Scala Times Issue #12

    Reactive Scala Wrapper for Amazon SQS. Confessions of a Scala evangelist turned Ruby pragmatist. Reasons behind renaissance of functional programming languages. Scaling Down the Scala Compiler Dragon. Optimizing Static Asset Loading with Play.


  15. Scala Times Issue #11

    Scala 2.11.0 available!. Spray 1.3.1 for Scala 2.11.0 available!. How to handle multiple Scala versions. Left to right, top to bottom. GSOC: Even more macros.


  16. Scala Times Issue #10

    Akka Streams . A few hints about Scala sequences. What is Type Class and why should you care?. Welcome to Scala 2.11. The Dark Side of Scala.


  17. Scala Times Issue #9

    SBuild 0.7.5 released. Transitioning to Scala. Building Reactive Applications with Akka (in Scala). Unifying Functional and Object-Oriented Programming with Scala. Pythagoras Theorem in Scala?.


  18. Scala Times Issue #8

    Upcoming sbt features. Manning: Reactive Design Patterns. The end of ORM. Scala may not be right for you if.... Combinatorial Algorithms in Scala.


  19. Scala Times Issue #7

    Using Scala Will Make You Less Productive. Monoid morphisms, products and coproducts. Will Java 8 Kill Scala?. Scala 2.10.4 released. Slick 2.0.1 released.


  20. Scala Times Issue #6

    May Your Data Ever Be Coherent. Scala Through Katas: Reverse Polish Notation. Akka Persistence webinar. Automate deployment of Scala/Java services on Elastic Beanstalk with Codeship. Faster Cosine Similarity Between Two Dicuments With Scala&Lucene.


  21. Scala Times Issue #5

    Reconciling untyped actors with typeful programming. JFokus 2014 - Akka Made Our Day. The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with Play. Building a Social Music Service using... well, everything we write about. Scala 2.11.0-RC1 is now available.


  22. Scala Times Issue #4

    NE Scala 2014 - Learning Scalaz. NE Scala 2014 - Macros vs Types. NE Scala 2014: An introduction to Scalaz-Stream. Scala/Akka Wikipedia Reader. 30 SBT plugins in 15 minutes.


  23. Scala Times Issue #3

    Chisel - the hardware corner. All work and no Play doesn't scale. Scala at Google Summer of Code?. Scala Tutorial Through Katas: The Bowling Game.


  24. Scala Times Issue #1

    Coding resiliently in Scala with Akka. Selling Scala to Technical Managers. Huffington Post's Scala Story. GitBucket - a GitHub clone powered by Scala. Skinny - a skinny Scala framework.


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