Company „Skillsmatter“ stops operations

The company Skillsmatter in London has been put „under administration“ and basically stopped its operations. The web site seems to suggest, that everything is still ok, but that is not the case and I have heard so from several sources. The owner Wendy Devolder writes on Twitter and on Linkedin. Or here are some more …

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Scala Exchange 2017

I have visited Scala Exchange („#ScalaX“) in London on 2017-12-14 and 2017-12-15. It was great, better than 2015 in my opinion. In 2016 I missed Scala Exchange in favor of Clojure Exchange. This time there were really many talks about category theory and of course its application to Scala. Spark, Big Data and Slick were …

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Scala Exchange 2015

It was possible to arrange a visit of Scala Exchange 2015 in London, short #ScalaX. I visited the following events: day 1: Keynote: Scaling Intelligence: moving ideas forward by Jessica Kerr Functional Patterns for FP beginners by Clément Delafargue Introduction to Apache Spark by Deenar Toraskar Keynote: Without Resilience, Nothing Else Matters by Jonas Bonér …

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Scala Exchange 2014

Deutsch I have been visiting the conference Scala eXchange ( #scalaX ) organized by Skillsmatter in London. Here is some information about the talks that I have attended and the highlights: The Binary Compatibility Challenge Martin Odersky Examples can be constructed for each of the four combinations of binary and source code compatibility. We wish …

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Scala Exchange 2013

Deutsch I have visited the conference ScalaX 2013 in London on the beginning of December. It was really fun. The talks were quite challenging, maybe even a little bit more than on other conferences I have visited, but that was really fun to listen to. About 400 participants were there and three tracks were available. …

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