London Scala UG - March Update

[Andy Hicks]

Hi All

Thanks to Jan for the 'Spring and Scala' session and sorry I didn't manage to talk to you in the pub afterwards. Anyone who can do a talk from 'scala intro' to 'cake pattern' in less than 90 mins deserves much credit.

Must also give a plug for the weekly scala update blog 'This Week in Scala' from Cake Solutions, a list of updated apps and interesting blogs and articles. This weeks can be found here

This month (14th March) we see Ban with how he got on using anti-xml and Specs2 as part of a project for a client.

The following evening (15th March) is then the monthly Scala Dojo.

ScalaDays 2012

(17/18th April)

ScalaDays is coming along nicely, expect to see around 400 other Scala enthusiasts (almost double the 250 that went last year)

The "Early bird" registrations will be available until 5 March 2012 (ie this Monday) so if you are still thinking of going and still don't have a ticket then better act soon, Registration is at http://days2012.scala-lang.org/registration

The list of 39 speakers for the two-day event are now online at http://days2012.scala-lang.org/node/92.

Not forgetting keynotes from - Simon-Peyton Jones (Haskell), Guy Steele(Emacs/Fortress), Anthony Rose (Zeebox) and Martin Odersky (GJ/Pizza).

Events

March

7 A practical introduction to the Scala language (FREE, full at time of writing)

7-9 QCon London (some scala) (3day pay)

14 Miles Sabin's Advanced Scala: Exploiting the Power of Types (2day pay)

14 Ben Parker: Testing times with Scala : A TDD journey using anti-xml (FREE)

15 David Pollak's Lift Basics Workshop (1day, pay)

15 Scala Coding Dojo (FREE)

16 Functional Programming eXchange 2012 (1day pay)
19 Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala (repeat jun, sep, dec) (2day pay)
21 Typesafe's Advanced Scala (repeat jun, sep, dec) (2day pay)

April

16 Typesafe's Fast Track to Play (repeat jun, sep, dec) (1day pay)

17-18 ScalaDays 2012 (2days, pay)

19 Miles Sabin's Advanced Scala: Exploiting the Power of Types (2day pay)

19 Martin Odersky - Scala: An Introduction (FREE)

19 Scala Coding Dojo (FREE)

May

3 Progressive Java Tutorials (some scala) (2day pay)

17 Scala Coding Dojo (FREE)

June

20 Typesafe's Fast Track to Akka (repeat sep, dec) (2day pay)

21 Scala Coding Dojo (FREE)

Two notes on courses, Miles now has a new web site for his course on Adv Scala and Typesafe have 2 new courses on Play2 and Akka.

Other Events

If you live around Brighton then also join Functional Brighton.

If beer and java is you thing, take a look at Developer Sessions with the LJC

24-25 May EuroClojure 2012 

As always, If you have anything for me to add to next months for want to volunteer to do a talk/organise a different event/other ideas, let me know.

an...@hicks.net