• Extending the Scala Language
  • Operators - http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html
  • Actors - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
  • Compiler plugins - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/140
• Traits
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126
• Closures
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/node/138
• Option types
  • http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/50-The-Scala-Option-class-and-how-lift-uses-it.html
• Benevolent dictator for life
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
• Implicits
  • http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2010/06/scala-implicits-type-classes-here-i.html
• Perl - more than one way to do it
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_more_than_one_way_to_do_it
• Implicit manifest (reification)
  • http://www.scala-blogs.org/2008/10/manifests-reified-types.html
• XML literals
  • http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/working-with-scalas-xml-support
• Groovy builders
  • http://groovy.codehaus.org/Builders
• Scala wicket
  • http://www.slideshare.net/stuq/basic-wicket-and-scala
• Github javabin scala training
  • http://github.com/javaBin/scala-training-slides
• Talking puffin
  • http://talkingpuffin.org/
• Beginning Scala - David Pollak
  • http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Scala-David-Pollak/dp/1430219890/ref=pd_sim_b_4
• Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
  • http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Comprehensive-Step-step/dp/0981531601/ref=pd_sim_b_1
• O'Relly Scala book
  • http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Scalability-Functional-Objects/dp/0596155956/ref=pd_sim_b_1
• Monadic design patterns
  • http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Scala-Monadic-Design-Patterns/dp/143022844X
• Scala koans
  • http://github.com/dickwall
• Lift
  • http://liftweb.net/
• Case classes
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/node/107
• Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3289
  • Discussion - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6202
• Structural types
  • http://markthomas.info/blog/?p=66
• Annotations (e.g. JPA)
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/node/106
  • http://www.hars.de/2009/03/jpa-with-scala.html
• Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
  • http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Funky+Java,+Objective+Scala
• Scalatest
  • http://www.artima.com/scalatest/

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• Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    • written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    • Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    • Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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