The Scala Types

Thu, 26 January 2012

Episode 13: Part 2 of Interview with Viktor Klang - Android and other musings

In which the heros find themselves discussing:

Scala on Android
Scala macros
Scala Automatic Resource Management
Daniel's theories on Life, Love and sound typing.

Direct download: viktor-klang-part-2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:07 PM

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Thu, 22 December 2011

Episode 12: Interview with Viktor Klang

#legendofklang gets the #spiewakeffect

Direct download: viktor-interview.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:00 PM

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Thu, 8 December 2011

Episode 11: Open Discussion on Scala Optimisation and Complexity

Direct download: scala-optimisation.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:50 PM

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Fri, 2 December 2011

Episode 10: Dick Wall Part 2 and some Patent ranting

This is the episode in which we find out Daniel's secret love for Windows 7, how elegant a small library by dick wall can be, and that Yuvi thinks patents are awesome (at least, hardware patents have potential there).

Links:

Subcut: https://github.com/dickwall/subcut

Patent review website for OSS: http://peertopatent.org/

Increase in # of allowances lately: http://cleere-law.com/patent_allowances.aspx

New patent director: http://ipwatchdog.com/2009/04/15/announcement-nears-on-new-patent-office-director/id=2636/

Also, all views presented in this podcast are that of the members of the podcast. No views or statements reflect in any way the views of the spouses of the members of the podcast.

Direct download: dickwall-part2.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 1:56 AM

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Mon, 26 September 2011

Episode 9: Discussion at StrangeLoop

New Idea: Fill in all of Daniel's esoteric type theory references!!!

Send references and links to scala-types@googlegroups.com

Direct download: strangeloop-dicussion.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 7:53 PM

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Mon, 29 August 2011

Episode 8: JVM discussion with Dick Wall

JDK 7 (bugs INCLUDED!)

lucene

Oracle like $$$ and sells a database. You may have heard of it.
Invoke Dynamic
John Rose is awesome
Who’s the Scala JCP ‘insider’?
Scala Debugger
.NET vs JVM

Scala.NET great
STOP THE LAWSUITS!
LLVM
Google Chrome’s PNaCL
Scala JS Backends
Nashorn (not Narwhal)

JSR 223

*is* used in industry
*not* good for cross-language support

Cross-Compiling cross-languages is *hard*

dynalink https://github.com/szegedi/dynalink

Josh lost his laptop

still has Battle for Wesnoth
Using bumblebee for NVidia Optimix.
Another plug for Lenovo.

Bill Venners is fun. See corrected Episode #1 show notes. We’re sorry for the hate mail, Bill!
Scala training with Bill Venners + Dick Wall

Send us your hatemail. scalatypes@googlegroups.com

Direct download: jvm-podcast.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 7:38 PM

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Sat, 20 August 2011

Teaser: The Dick Wall Robot

A teaser for the upcoming episode.

Direct download: dickwall-teaser.mp3
Category:teaser -- posted at: 8:51 PM

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Tue, 9 August 2011

Episode 7: Interview with Nikita Ivanov

GridGain systems

MapReduce for real-time processing
Sub-second response for very fast networks
In-Memory data grid
vs. Hadoop where data is not colocated

Functional core to gridgain

com.gridgain.grid.lang

GridGain book
GridGain is hiring

Direct download: gridgain-interview-final.mp3
Category:interview -- posted at: 1:44 AM

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Thu, 28 July 2011

Episode 6 @ Scalathon: Interview with Heather Miller

Daniel proves that he thinks the Portuguese language is the Spanish language.
Heather Ph.D.’ng for parallel processing

Added Ropes and Parallel ropes to Scala collections

New Documentation Czar

Part-time
Licensing undetermined right now
Responsible for API and guide/overview-style docs
Working on a guide/overview style doc repository.

Meant to organize documentation internal documentation and documentation from the community in one central location.
Pull-Model, not wiki model. Moderated
Meant to cover all topics of Scala
Interactive, commenting similar in style to DjangoBook

Yuvi *loves* MSDN documentation and Daniel likes pay-walls for reading articles.
Accepting contributions to Scaladoc API documentation.
Yuvi pushes our iTunes rating, Josh needs to learn how to bleep.
Josh shows his ignorance in pronouncing Iulian.
Scala is moving to github (Josh is responsible)
Fun blog postings