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Dear All I have been recording seasonal Audioboo episodes for your delectation. I wish you all Happy Holidays, Merry Xmas, Kwanza, Winter Break, Solstice, and generally wellbeing, health and happiness. Take care. Xmas Boos Episode 1: Scala Adoption Financial Service? Yeah:-/ (mp3) Xmas Boos Episode 2: Aim for Timeless Software Quality over Quantity (mp3) Xmas […]

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As my tardiness will allow, I have massive blog entry about Devoxx to write. I seem always write a week after the event, because there is so much happening. This year, I presented with Stephen Chin, a university session, three hours long about what a humble Java engineer needs to know about JavaFX 2.0, especially […]

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Hard Reference In my last blog entry, ScalaFX A Walkthrough, I talked about setting up ScalaFX 2.0 in IntelliJ 10.5 with the Scala Build Tool (SBT) in the screencast. I left out some salient points. The JavaFX 2.0 SDK has one important hardcoded reference in it, which makes it hard to use in a Maven […]

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In this video cast, I walk you through downloading ScalaFX and setting up the environment for IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 with Scala Build Tool (SBT) in real-time.     ScalaFX is a domain specific language and binding framework written in Scala that wraps the JavaFX 2.0 application programming interface. Information of Scala Build Tool can be […]

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This is the final part in a series of article about porting an existing Java application to Scala. The application calls the Yahoo! Financial web service and retrieve stock quotes for the user, storing them in a local repository. The original Java project was described in the part one. In the part two of this […]

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In Part 1 of this article, we discussed the Java language form of an exercise project. The task was to create an equity quote application that retrieved stock prices from a public web service Yahoo! Finance. Let me suggest a really good process of adopting Scala inside the organisation: take the unit tests written in […]

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Here follows in these series of three article is a description of Scala application that ported from Java. I would prefer to call this work a “Scalafication”. Many people are thinking about Scala Adoption as it gets important interest from the wider community. Did you know that Professor Martin Odersky won the Java Top Ambassador […]

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  Hi Everyone! I am sorry if this has taken longer to announce than when I first tweeted it on Twitter on Sunday 25th August 2011. I am organising the first Collective Sumer Camp UK, which inspired by my experience of attending the JavaPosse Round Up for three years in a row (2009, 2010, and […]

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  So I was at the Scala Exchange at Skills Matter last week. It was a really great mini-conference that happened in the middle of personal awkward time, a somewhat busy and confusing place in my space-time, my corner of the universe. Thanks for the invitation by Skills Matter as London’s only Java Champion, one […]

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  Hello there! This is a blog entry is just an embedded Vimeo Plug-in. It is my video recording of the JavaPosse Round-Up 2011 closing session. I edited it a couple of months ago and locked it privately and now it is time to unlock it. I always take a video camcorder to Colorado for […]

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Yay! The Scala Adoption (Episode 353) session from JavaPosse Round Up 2011 has been released. You can listen to the JavaPosse podcast episodes online at The Lounge or try this German website directly Podcast.de. The session was proposed by Diane Marsh and myself.  There is not much more I can say to add to the […]

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  My week of Scala continues at the ACCU 2011 in Oxford. I will be here, incidentally, until Saturday lunchtime. At least that is the plan. The Stream First let me add some record of tweet to my presentation yesterday. You can also download my ACCU 2011 Introduction to Scala presentation direct from XeNoNiQUe. Otherwise […]