Re: [scala] Re: [Lift] Programming in Scala #5, Lift Book #8, Beginning Scala #9

2009-06-10 Thread Kevin Wright
Note sure I'd agree make is all that simple... Unless you're doing something VERY basic then it's loaded with potential for accidental complexity. The whole philosophy of maven is to do the Right Thing(tm) by default, although I must admit that boilerplate for configuring plugins is frequently a

Re: [scala] Re: [Lift] Programming in Scala #5, Lift Book #8, Beginning Scala #9

2009-06-09 Thread Heiko Seeberger
2009/6/9 Viktor Klang viktor.kl...@gmail.com Awesome idea. Would be great to establish some kind of curriculum with joint teaching material to be able to offer courses worldwide. +1 We have been doing something similar with Eclipse = www.eclipse-training.net And very recently we also

Re: [scala] Re: [Lift] Programming in Scala #5, Lift Book #8, Beginning Scala #9

2009-06-09 Thread Viktor Klang
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Heiko Seeberger heiko.seeber...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/6/9 Viktor Klang viktor.kl...@gmail.com Awesome idea. Would be great to establish some kind of curriculum with joint teaching material to be able to offer courses worldwide. +1 We have been

Re: [scala] Re: [Lift] Programming in Scala #5, Lift Book #8, Beginning Scala #9

2009-06-09 Thread David Pollak
Luc, Jorge, Kaliya and I did a LiftWorkshop in November. We had 6 people at the workshop. We tried to pack in Scala and Lift all into a day... it didn't work. Jorge and I have done some review and we figure there's 3 days of Scala training and 2-3 days of Lift training that would be a minimum

Re: [scala] Re: [Lift] Programming in Scala #5, Lift Book #8, Beginning Scala #9

2009-06-09 Thread Jorge Ortiz
In addition to the Lift Workshop, I also co-taught a ten-week (1.5hrs/wk) course at Stanford on Scala. It was targeted at advanced undergrads and graduate students. Most were programming language enthusiasts, so the course focused more on the interesting parts of Scala from a programming language

Re: [scala] Re: [Lift] Programming in Scala #5, Lift Book #8, Beginning Scala #9

2009-06-09 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
Since the topic seems to have morphed into learning Scala and Lift by immersion in a day, as a recent Scala convert, I can't begin to emphasize how important it is to have the build infrastructure all done in a simple way to let novices focus on Scala. Lift is a good example where you have no

Re: [scala] Re: [Lift] Programming in Scala #5, Lift Book #8, Beginning Scala #9

2009-06-09 Thread Josh Suereth
I must say, I have not met a build system (besides automake) that exceeded make in complexity. The amount of funny exceptions to rules is astounding. I had far less trouble learning maven (in all its complexity) Sent from my iPhone On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Alexy Khrabrov