Scala Buzz

David Pollak [1] sent us a nice Scala news roundup, which will certainly be of interest to many of you.

He writes: Lots of Scala buzz is happening around the web...

Alex Payne, API master [2] at Twitter, presented Scala [3] at the C4 conference [4]. You can read posts from Alex and others about learning Scala at Graceless Failures [5].
24 people [6] from the SAP [7] ecosystem collaborated [8] to build ESME [9]: the Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment on Scala [10] and Lift [11]. David Pollak and Jen Robinson launched ESME [12] at SAP TechEd's DemoJam in front of 3,000 developers. ESME is a Google Code project [13].
David Pollak also gave a hands-on presentation in how to build a wiki with Lift [14] and a lightening presentation of a chat application at the Rich Internet Application Hacker Night [15], and gave a presentation on using Functional Programming [16] (Scala and Lift) to build Buy a Feature [17] at the Bay Area Functional Programming [18] group.
The Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts [19] met on Sept 9th [20] at the GooglePlex. David Hall presented on using Scala inside of the Hadoop Map-Reduce [21] environment.
Tony Morris gave a presentation on Scala [22] to the Queensland Java Users Group.

Links:
[1] http://blog.lostlake.org
[2] http://blog.twitter.com/2008/08/alex-payne-api-lead.html
[3] http://www.slideshare.net/al3x/why-scala-presentation
[4] http://rentzsch.com/c4/twoOpen
[5] http://www.gracelessfailures.com
[6] https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10758
[7] https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10754
[8] http://blog.esme.us
[9] http://esme.us
[10] http://scala-lang.org
[11] http://liftweb.net
[12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFJMpFkpoQU
[13] http://code.google.com/p/esmeproject
[14] http://code.google.com/p/sdn-mentor-handson-2008/downloads/list
[15] http://blog.esme.us/2008/09/14/sap-teched-2008-pics
[16] http://www.bayfp.org/blog/2008/08/24/video-and-slides-from-august-meeting
[17] http://buyafeature.com
[18] http://bayfp.org
[19] http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base
[20] http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base/browse_thread/thread/d87cdd5b21611405
[21] http://scala-blogs.org/2008/09/scalable-language-and-scalable.html
[22] http://wiki.workingmouse.com/index.php/Introduction_to_High-level_Programming_with_Scala