Scala at NFJS Symposiums

NFJS - No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums are recognised to be world class events where you can learn about the latest technology, improve your skills and meet the experts. This year there are a series of local events centred around Enterprise Java, Agility, Spring, Groovy/Grails, Ajax, JSF and multiple language sessions on Scala.

Reflecting the growing commercial deployment of Scala each NFJS event now contain several sessions on various aspects of Scala given by leading industry consultants, people like Michael Nygard, Venkat Subramaniam and Ted Neward. If you are interested in staying up to date in the Java world and want to get up to speed with Scala then look out for an NFJS symposium near you; please read below.

• Milwaukee, WI  Feb 26 - 28
• Boston, MA  Mar 5 - 7
• Minneapolis, MN  Mar 12 - 14
• Bloomington, IL  Apr 9 - 10
• Tampa, FL  Apr 16 - 18
• Memphis, TN  Apr 23 - 25
• Reston, VA  Apr 30 - May 2
• St. Louis, MO  May 21 - 23
• Dallas, TX  Jun 4 - 6
• Denver, CO  Jun 14 - 17
• See the NFJS home page for symposiums July to December.

Each conference will have several of the following Scala sessions. Which ones and more detail on the session can be found in the specific symposium sessions schedule.

DSLs in Scala: Internal and External

Michael Nygard - Agile technology leader and dynamicist

We're no longer working in a single language. Programming today is about both consuming and creating languages. In this session, Michael will present a real domain with familiar problems.

Programming Scala

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Scala is a static fully object-oriented, functional language on the JVM. While taking advantage of the functional aspects, you can continue to make full use of the powerful JVM and Java libraries.

Scala Tricks

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Scala is a very powerful hybrid functional pure object oriented language on the JVM. In this presentation Venkat will look at some common tasks you do everyday in developing applications and see how they manifest in Scala.

Scala for Java Programmers

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Scala is a very powerful, statically typed, hybrid functional, pure OO language. The strengths of Scala is in its expressiveness, support for XML, powerful pattern matching, and elegant solution to concurrency. In this workshop, you will deep dive into understanding the strengths of Scala from a very practical point of view.

Tackling Concurrency on the JVM

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

In this presentation we will take a quick walk though the issues with concurrency and how the solutions provided in Scala and Clojure help address them.

The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala: Basics

Ted Neward - Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

A basic tour of Scala - functional features, such as algebraic data types, immutable objects by default, pattern matching, closures, anonymous functions, currying, and more.

The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala: Patterns

Ted Neward - Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

A tour of Scala with a focus on patterns - functional features, such as algebraic data types, immutable objects by default, pattern matching, closures, anonymous functions, currying, and more.