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Hi Scala enthousiasts,We are very pleased to announce DUSE meetup #22, which will be presented by Dirk Louwers, Mark van der Tol and Jan-Pieter van den Heuvel from Plot, a startup company in Amsterdam.Plot is a mobile plugin, bringing real-time location awareness to Android and iOS, fully built on Scala in the backend. The Plot team will grant us an in-depth look into their kitchen and reveal…See More

On Thursday, February the 14th we're having our first Scala Hackathon at Elmar (Herengracht 262 5th floor. Please give us a ring, so we can open the door). We'll start at 18:30 and our event host Elmar will provide us with pizza and drinks! There’s space for 30 hackers (first come, first serve) so be quick!Things to do at the Scala HackathonWe're not using a rigid schedule, but we would like to know what you plan to do at the Hackathon. You don't have to be too specific; we're using this to…See More

Hi Scala enthousiasts,With DUSE meetup #20 we begin the new year with an intriguing topic: Spray! Spray will be presented by Age Mooij, who has used Spray in several real-world projects. Moreover, he has contributed several bug fixes to Spray and he is an active member of the Spray community.Spray is a lightweight, asynchronous, non-blocking, actor-based, modular and testable rest/http toolkit built on top of Akka. It is perfectly suited to connect…See More

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…See More

Hi Scala enthousiasts,The summer holidays are over so it’s highest time to shake off all remains of our vacation drowsiness and focus on what’s really important: Scala! ;-)With the advent of html5 and mobile apps, REST backends gain importance. Therefore, we’ll dedicate our time on the most popular REST frameworks available in Scala land by doing a little REST framework contest. So be prepared to make your hands dirty and your keyboard smoke.18:00 - 18:30: Food & Drinks18:30 – 20:15: Scala…See More