Our feedback from ScalaDays 2013 to the ScalaSyd community

1. ScalaDays2013
ProxyFactoryBeanDelegate
http://parleys.com/channel/51ae1022e4b01033a7e4b6ca/presentations

2. Concurrency: good/bad/ugly

3. Delite

4. Delite

5. Akka, real-world recipes
• Patterns: distributed workers, receptionist,
pub-sub,…
• “No guaranteed delivery”
• Takeaway: Akka is very powerful
• Opinion: Still not sold on Actors

6. Akka, real-world recipes

7. Lancet

8. Practical type-mining with Scala
=> Scala 2.10 reflection API

9. Versal: Scala-based startup
Testing via csv files o_O
DI using Delimited Continuation Hack
(basically Reader Monad)

10. The Rodgate
Poetry in code
Issues
• Being too clever
• Punishing ignorance
• Dismissing OO
• Dismissing frameworks
• Being arrogant
Let’s discuss that offline ;-)

11. Half-year in Macro paradise
Quasi-quoting (2.11)
Type-providers via macro annotations
• Lenses
• etc…
Implicit macros

12. Half-year in Macro paradise
=> Implicit macro example

13. Taming the Cake pattern with macros
• Lots of redundancy
• Small “dependency language”

14. Scala Async

15. Scala Async

16. Pickles and Spores: pickles
Issues
• Unpicklers return type
• Error messages
• Composition operators
• Field names

17. Pickles and Spores: spores

18. Pickles and Spores: spores

19. Expanding eta-expansion to polymorphic functions

20. Designing for performance
https://github.com/Ichoran/thyme

21. A Scala puzzler http://scalapuzzlers.com/#pzzlr-034