De Nederlandse Scala Enthousiastelingen

Duse XVIII - Core Play 2.0

Event Details

Time: June 14, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: Xebia, Laapersveld building
Street: Laapersveld 55
City/Town: 1213 TL Hilversum
Website or Map: http://g.co/maps/am4xy
Event Type: meetup, duse
Organized By: Urs Peter
Latest Activity: Jun 18, 2012

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Event Description

Hi Scala enthousiasts,

I’m very pleased to announce DUSE meetup #18. Erik Bakker, co-author of the book Play for Scala, will reveal us some of the core internals of Play 2.0. His presentation is followed by a hands-on hacking session were you get the chance to transform his ‘revelations’ into working code.

One of Play’s distinguishing features is its reactive architecture that leverages the non-blocking and event-driven programming model as well as its scalability characteristics. Erik will introduce us to Play’s reactive programming model and show us how to use iteratees en enumerators combined with websockets. He will elaborate on the scalability features of Play such as its seamless integration with Akka, as well as on other advanced building blocks that make Play such an outstanding web framework.

Program

18:00 - 18:30: Food & Drinks

18:30 – 20:00: Presentation Core Play 2.0 by Erik Bakker

20:00 – 21:00: Hands-on session (Play with Play ;-))

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you for an insightful and mind-rocking evening with Scala’s ‘official’ web framework that is presented by one of the few Dutch insiders.

Cheers Urs

PS: The meetup is not in the usual main Xebia office but in their second office building in the street behind. See this Google maps link for how to get there.

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Comment by Robby Pelssers on June 1, 2012 at 1:51pm: Too bad xebia is too far away (i'm from Beek LB)... i would have attended a few sessions by now otherwise ;-(

Comment by Alexander Lazovik on June 1, 2012 at 4:00pm: I wish I could come, but I will be abroad on June 14. Any chance to postpone it for a week? ;-)

Comment by Wilfred Springer on June 14, 2012 at 5:26pm: Reconstruction going on in my house. Won't be able to be there tonight. :-(

Comment by Robby Pelssers on June 14, 2012 at 6:02pm: nice... first attempt to follow the meeting with skype. If this works in practice i'll definitely join a few meetings in the future !!

Comment by Remco Bos on June 14, 2012 at 10:39pm: I really enjoyed this presentation!! @Robby: nice you could follow the meeting! We definitely need more Scala enthousiasm in the south (Eindhoven someone?)

Comment by Robby Pelssers on June 15, 2012 at 9:45am: Actually i work in Eindhoven (high tech campus) but I live in Beek. I agree that we could use more scala enthousiasts in the south. It seems as if most Java developers don't like to leave their comfort zone and switch to a admittetly more difficult but also much more powerfull language.

Comment by Robby Pelssers on June 15, 2012 at 9:48am: Oh.. as a side note.. following the presentation itself went perfect. So this is definitely an option for people living far away.

Comment by Wilfred Springer on June 15, 2012 at 9:50am: I live (almost) in Noord-Brabant (Betuwe), and do Scala for a living. Some would consider that the south. ;-) But I have to be honest, the company that I'm currently working for is based in the US.

By the way, in Japan, there is a Scala meetup that is only has online presence. I think it's this one, but I could be wrong: https://sites.google.com/site/scalatohoku/

Comment by Urs Peter on June 15, 2012 at 9:53am: Good to hear that the remote DUSE was successful (apart from the food, which is a little harder to serialize ;-)). We'll take this into consideration for our next meetup.

Comment by Wilfred Springer on June 15, 2012 at 9:53am: Oh, and by the way, if you feel there is some evangelization required, I'd be more than happy to do a talk on Scala for newbies anywhere in the south. And I can also provide a two day training, in case you're interested. (And that's not limited to the south. ;-) )

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