London Scala UG - May Update

[Andy Hicks]

Hi and "May the 4th be with you" :-)

Hope everyone that went to ScalaDays had fun and for those that didn't go then hope you come next year.

Next months talk is by Chris Turner, if you haven't seen Chris' videos on "Map, Flatten and FlatMap" and "Option" then they are well worth watching.

If you would like to volunteer to do a talk, have an idea for something you would like to hear a talk about or just want to do something different then let me know and I'll do my best to help arrange something.

Martin's Talk

The video of Martin's 'Intro to Scala' talk from last month is at:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/scala-intro

ScalaDays 2012

Official: http://days2012.scala-lang.org/

Videos: http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-days-2012

Wiki: https://wiki.scala-lang.org/display/SW/Scala+Days+2012+Resources

New Consultancy

One of the news items from scaladays was the startup of a new consultancy partnership by a group of Scala people in London

http://underscoreconsulting.com/

New Meetup group
The London Play! Framework Meetup Group

http://play.nascency.co.uk/

Scala Dojo

Last months dojo was fun and I managed to learn lots about "combinator parser" that I didn't before. And other teams did other things like katas.

The github for the dojo code is: https://github.com/lsug-dojo

The next dojo is on 17th at TIMGroup with Pawel, as always.

Events

May

3 Progressive Java Tutorials (some scala, with Viktor Klang) (2day pay)

14 Architecting & implementing polyglot applications (FREE)

17 Scala Coding Dojo (FREE)

June

13 Chris Turner - Experiences from a Real-World Scala Project (FREE)

21 Scala Coding Dojo (FREE)

July
1-4 BCS SPA Conference (some scala) (4day, pay)

19 Scala Coding Dojo (FREE)

Training

_.Underscore

Core Scala: Blending Functional and Object Oriented (2days, pay) - 28May/25Jun/23Jul/27Aug/24Sep/29Oct

Typeful Scala: Exploiting the Power of Types ( 2days, pay) - 30May/27Jun/25Jul/29Aug/26Sep/31Nov

SkillsMatter/Typesafe

Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala (2day pay) - 18Jun/24Sep/10Dec
Typesafe's Advanced Scala (2day pay) - 20Jun/26Sep/12Dec

Typesafe's Fast Track to Play (1day pay) - 22Jun/28Sep/14Dec

Typesafe's Fast Track to Akka (2day pay) - 20Jun/26Sep/12Dec

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

5-6 May A Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the ZX Spectrum (FREE, I think)

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.