I’m really excited to announce that my Scala 3 beginners course is out on the LinkedIn platform now! https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-scala-14639381/ This course is for people with only basic programming experience. No Java experience is required! It’s a really gentle introduction for those who are interested in learning more about this amazing language. I wanted to create […]
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What is Scala?
A couple of years ago I had never heard of the programming language Scala. Now I write it everyday! This article is for those who don’t know what Scala is and would like a quick overview. Scala is a relatively new computer programming language. It was first released in 2003 and publicly released in 2004. […]
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sbt remote caching – intro
sbt is a popular build tool used in the Scala community and in this article I want to describe remote caching in sbt. I’m writing this because I have spent some time fixing a related bug in sbt. I want to explain what I’ve learnt about remote caching and in the next post, describe the […]
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sbt settings for beginners
sbt is a build tool used by many Scala projects. Developers using sbt will rarely need to know more than the basic commands like run, compile and test. But if you’re curious, you might want to learn more about how sbt works. If so, then this article series is for you! Here, we learn about […]
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Creating my dream tech conference
About 3 months ago I was feeling really frustrated. Yet another Scala conference had taken place and I couldn’t even understand the talk titles on the conference schedule, let alone the talks themselves. I thought to myself: If only there was a Scala conference for beginners. A place where I could feel the excitement of […]