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Clever, Classless and Free
Håkan Råberg introduces Enumerable.java – an extension adding Lambdas to Java 5 – and shen.clj - used to compile Shen, a LISP variant, to Clojure.
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A Taxonomy of Scala
Jamie Allen explains some of the terminology encountered by Scala developers and not only: OO features, pattern matching, functional programming, actors, futures, tuples, implicits, type theory, etc.
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Compiling Scala to LLVM
Geoff Reedy informs on the current status of a LLVM backend for the Scala compiler project he’s working on, detailing on its design and implementation.
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Lessons from Functional Programming in Five Languages
Robert Rees shares lessons learned while using Clojure and applied them to other languages, Scala, JavaScript and Java.
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Monads for Normal People
Dustin Getz shows writing monads code explaining how they work and why they are useful.
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Clojure after the Honeymoon
Håkan Råberg and Jon Pither on introducing Clojure to an investment bank team having a large Java code, dealing with cultural differences, the lessons learned, and ways of dealing with legacy code.
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Akka Eye for the Spring Guy or Gal
Jan Machacek introduces writing Scala applications to Spring developers, demoing using Akka actors with mix-in composition, higher-order functions, higher-order kinds, and REST API.
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Grails Update
Jeff Brown presents what’s new in Grails 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2, and informs on the enhancements to be introduced with 2.3.
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This is Your Workflow on Catnip
Bodil Stokke introduces the productivity benefits of Catnip, a text editor with REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) functionality integrated into the Clojure environment.
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Clojure + Datomic + Storm = Zolodeck
Amit Rathore describes the architecture of Zolodeck, a virtual relationship manager built on Clojure, Datomic, and Storm.
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Keynote: Spring 2012 and Beyond
Adrian Colyer, Juergen Hoeller, Mark Pollack and Graeme Rocher present SpringSource’s Unifying Component Model, current developments regarding Big Data, and betting on Grails.
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Scaling Software with Akka
Jonas Bonér explains solving scalability issues, including adaptive automatic load-balancing, cluster rebalancing, replication and partitioning, with Akka 2.