Re: [cfaussie] CFAussie Posts Are Very Occasional
Hi Mark, Sorry for the very late reply... I am having a muck about with it. I am REALLY liking the PLAY toolkit / framework for making web apps out of Scala. Scala / Akka / Play - seems like a pretty common stack for web development, too - which is good (for me) because I found them discreetly of each other. There is a Melbourne Scala User Group and the Scala / Akka / Play Google groups seem to have lots of traffic and learner friendly / helpful people, too. -Gavin. On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:17:09 PM UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: You doing some Scala at the moment Gavin? Mark On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Gavin Baumanis beaue...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I think you'll find some young developers are now circling back around to Erlang and Haskell (actually, not a joke) Mark Scala for the win.. All the good bits of Java - and the functional programming of haskell, all rolled into one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+u...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to cfau...@googlegroups.comjavascript: . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- E: mark@gmail.com javascript: T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic W: www.compoundtheory.com 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast http://www.2ddu.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [cfaussie] CFAussie Posts Are Very Occasional
Interesting! :) From what I hear, Scala can be quite complicated, but has some nice features built in. Be interested to hear on your take on it. It's been on my todo list to have a cursory look over Scala, but have been distracted by other things (clojure, neo4j, elasticsearch ... blerg blerg) Mark On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Gavin Baumanis beauecli...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Mark, Sorry for the very late reply... I am having a muck about with it. I am REALLY liking the PLAY toolkit / framework for making web apps out of Scala. Scala / Akka / Play - seems like a pretty common stack for web development, too - which is good (for me) because I found them discreetly of each other. There is a Melbourne Scala User Group and the Scala / Akka / Play Google groups seem to have lots of traffic and learner friendly / helpful people, too. -Gavin. -- E: mark.man...@gmail.com T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic W: www.compoundtheory.com 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast http://www.2ddu.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [cfaussie] CFAussie Posts Are Very Occasional
I realise this is a CF mailing list… But as far another language to learn goes... I am not finding it too bad, actually. But then again - I don't have any real Java experience to unlearn - and apply the Scala way to, either. And… I am far from being a naturally-gifted application developer - but I am finding the learning curve - to the basics at least - relatively easy going. Recently, in the ColdFusion world - I have managed to get a a really good handle on ColdSpring (Dependency Injection and am starting to do some real work with AOP too) and thanks to CF's ORM implementation a relatively good exposure to Hibernate too. Perhaps they were good primers to get me in the right head-space to start with? I don't know, for certain of course, I am really just guessing! Definitely, Functional Programming is doing my head in - (but I honestly dot get closures either) - so that isn't a surprise to me! For the time being I am just using the OOP side of things, anyway. There are few things I REALLY like about Scala. * It rungs on the JVM - so you can use Java libraries natively, just like we already do in the CF world. * You can run Scala code as a script - for testing Scala expressions, without the requirements to compile / re-compile. * The Play framework is a really nice conventions based MVC framework for creating web applications. * Play also has a dynamic rebuild - so you don't need to recompile, manually, every time you want to test a change. * Lastly Akka - which is the Actors model framework - takes away the headache of concurrency / (threads / locking) etc from the developer. It just turns out to be a really nice stack to work with. On Monday, August 26, 2013 9:58:47 AM UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: Interesting! :) From what I hear, Scala can be quite complicated, but has some nice features built in. Be interested to hear on your take on it. It's been on my todo list to have a cursory look over Scala, but have been distracted by other things (clojure, neo4j, elasticsearch ... blerg blerg) Mark On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Gavin Baumanis beaue...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hi Mark, Sorry for the very late reply... I am having a muck about with it. I am REALLY liking the PLAY toolkit / framework for making web apps out of Scala. Scala / Akka / Play - seems like a pretty common stack for web development, too - which is good (for me) because I found them discreetly of each other. There is a Melbourne Scala User Group and the Scala / Akka / Play Google groups seem to have lots of traffic and learner friendly / helpful people, too. -Gavin. -- E: mark@gmail.com javascript: T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic W: www.compoundtheory.com 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast http://www.2ddu.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
