Josh Suereth

 

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Latest - ScalaDays 2012

I thought I'd do a quick recap of ScalaDays from my perspective. ScalaDays has always been a great event, and this one was no exception.

However, before going to the bits about my impressions and talks, I'll dump the links to the two talks I gave. Yes, that's two talks. I was grabbed in the hallway and told a speaker didn't show. Dumbly I said, "Why don't we find someone to go up and distract the audience before the next talk?" This, of course, meant that I was the someone to distract the audience. So, I hastily gave a version of the Effective Scala presentation (this one without all the nervous "right"s).

I also gave a talk on Binary Resilience. The first three slides tell the story of how defining binary compatibility is the hard. After that it's just a matter of highlighting the issues and showing some alternatives to avoid java.util.Date issues. (That is, an issue where you can't remove an obviously bad class because it breaks binary compatibility).

Effective Scala

Binary Resilience

Recap

Well, in the interest of not wasting everyone's time, I decided I'd pick out three things that struck me. These aren't the three most important things, just the first three I resolved out of introspection. Maybe that means they're the three biggest things that hit me, may not. So, in no particular order:

SkillsMatter is awesome

SkillsMatter organized the event...

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