Tag Archives: Scala

Objective-C is getting lots of Scala features.

Scala is awesome. Through a few libraries, you can add some of Scala’s awesomeness to Objective-C. Landon Fuller’s PLActorKit for Actors Landon Fuller’s PLBlocks for Closures – Also coming in Snow Leopard. MoGenerations’s FunctionalKit for Functional Constructs Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

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jMonkeyEngine and Scala, not going so we…

jMonkeyEngine and Scala, not going so well.

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Exploring Lift: Scala-based Web Framework

Lift is an exciting new framework that leverages the Scala programming language to offer an innovative approach to creating web applications. Lift provides enormous flexibility and functionality while keeping your code simple. Exploring Lift is brought to you by Derek … Continue reading

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Lift 1.0 has been released!

Read Dave’s announcement and check out the site. Lift is an expressive elegant web framework based on the Scala programming language and released under an an Apache 2.0 license. Lift provides developers the best way to build interactive, high performance … Continue reading

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Scala port of JBox2D

Villane is working on a Scala port of JBox2D. I’m looking forward to this port. There are a few games in my head I’d like to produce. Here’s the homepage of JBox2D. Update: Villane has a GitHub repo up for … Continue reading

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

There is a thread on Hacker News discussing a reading group focused on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. There is a Google Group and a wiki up as well. Geez, Hacker News people move quickly. I’m going to do … Continue reading

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Lift Book

Book for the Lift Web Framework Derek, Marius and I, with the help of the community, will be putting together a comprehensive book for using Lift. We have set up a Google Group for topic discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/the-lift-book The work … Continue reading

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Lift and Configgy

Robey wrote Configgy, and summarizes it as: Configgy is a library for handling config files and logging for a scala daemon. The idea is that it should be simple and straightforward, allowing you to plug it in and get started … Continue reading

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Al3x’s slides from his C4 talk on Scala

I would like to go to C4[3], but we’ll see… anyhoo, here’s Al3x’s scala slides: Why Scala? View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: c4 scala)

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Scala: Silly things I’ve done.

I had a list of objects, say like this: val l = List(“aaa”, “bbb”, “ccc”) and I wanted to produce something like this: <td id=IDaaa>aaa</td> <td id=IDbbb>bbb</td> <td id=IDccc>ccc</td> I first did this: l.map(u => <td id=”ID” + {u}>{u}</td>) and … Continue reading

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