At Scala Days 2015 in Amsterdam I talked about Scala.js, and in particular focussed on the great interoperability with JavaScript. This post gives additional links if you want to dig deeper.
At Scala Days 2015 in Amsterdam I talked about Scala.js, and in particular focussed on the great interoperability with JavaScript. This post gives additional links if you want to dig deeper.
The Internet knows cats, but you might not have heard of the Cats library for Scala. Cats is the spiritual successor to Scalaz: a library of absolutely essential utilities you really want to be using in your Scala code. Compared to Scalaz, Cats is more modular and it is using some newer tools to make its code base easier to work with.
Cats is still closer to being a kitten than the king of the alley, but it has definitely reached the stage where it is usable. In this article I’ll provide a basic introduction to get you started with Cats.
The Call for Papers for Scala Exchange 2015 went out today. Once again, Underscore are proud to be assisting with the organisation of the conference, and once again we will be providing assistance to new speakers and attendees.
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It’s time for cough May’s cough newsletter, and the theme of this edition is database access.
Since the last newsletter went out we have published a new book, Essential Slick. As most of you will know, Slick is a Scala library for relational database access. Essential Slick covers version 2.1 of the library. The next version, 3.0, was announced shortly before the book was published so we’re currently offering 50% off with the code slick2. This discount won’t last forever, so if you don’t have a copy of Essential Slick you might want to take advantage of this now.
But before we talk about databases, let’s touch on another subject that’s of great interest to many: money.
My recent post on sealed traits had some great feedback but it was clear that I glossed over some points too quickly. In this post I want to go over a new trick I’ve learned for sealed traits and clear up some of the points I made in the last post.