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I was lucky to get a chance to visit Devoxx in Antwerp the sixth time in a row. As always there were interesting talks to listen to. Some issues that were visible across different talks: Java 9 is now out and Java 8 will soon go into the first steps of deprecation. The step of …
About a month ago I visted the conference ScalaUA in Kiev. This was the schedule. It was a great conference and I really enjoyed everything, including the food, which is quite unusual for an IT-conference.. 🙂 I listened to the following talks: First day: Kappa Architecture, Juantomás García Molina 50 shades of Scala Compiler, Krzysztof …
I have visited Scala Days in Berlin 2016-06-15 to 2016-06-17. A little remark on the format might be of interest. The conference is scheduled for 3 days. On the first day, there is only one speech, the first keynote, some time in the late afternoon. During Scala Days 2015 the rest of the day was …
Almost every serious programming language has to deal with database access, if not out of love, then at least out of practical necessity. The theoretical background of a functional programming language is somewhat hostile to this, because pure functional langauges tend to dislike state and a database has the exact purpose to preserve state for …
It is a more and more common task that we need to have a date or maybe date with time as String. There are two reasonable ways to do this: * We may want the date formatted in the users Locale, whatever that is. * We want to use a generic date format, that is …
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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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Images are usually some obscure binary files. Their most common formats, PNG, SVG, JPEG and GIF are well documented and supported by many software tools. Libraries and APIs exist for accessing these formats, but also a phantastic free interactive software like Gimp. The compression rate that can reasonably be achieved when using these format is …
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I have visited Scala Days 2015 in Amsterdam. As usual, I took the night train to get there and back. Creative Scala Prior to the conference we did a training session for Scala beginners together with underscore. Some volunteers, including myself, joined the effort and so we were actually more teachers than students. It was …
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 …
„Scala Exchange 2014“ weiterlesen
Deutsch Around mid of June 2014 I have been visiting the Scala Days in Berlin. Like usual these events contain a lot of speeches, which were distributed in four tracks, apart from the key notes. The event location was a cinama, like the Devoxx in Antwerp, but this time one that has been transformed to …
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