Coding in Style: How to wield Scala in the trenches

Описание: Scala is an expressive language, but can be hard to grasp when coming from imperative languages. The key is understanding what expression is in Scala, and how to adapt code to be more expressive. This talk covers the 'zen' of Scala development, as well as some fundamental approaches to functional programming. 
In this talk are a series of examples in Java. First, we'll start translating the Java to leverage more Functional Programming concepts. Then, we'll step into Scala and watch the boilerplate melt away.
In particular, the topics covered are:* Expression oriented programming, the basics of FP* Simplicity in Design* Abstracting behaviors* How Functional and OO programming blend* Asynchronous programming with Futures and Promises* Removing edges in libraries with implicit classes and value classes* Tracking lexical state with implicit values.


Author:
Joshua Suereth
Josh Suereth is a Senior Software Engineer at Typesafe and the author of "Scala In Depth". He has been a Scala enthusiast ever since he came to know this beautiful language in 2007. He started his professional career as a software developer in 2004, cutting his teeth with C++, STL and Boost. Around the same time, Java fever was spreading and his interest was migrating to web-hosted distributed Java-delivered solutions to aide health departments discover the outbreaks of disease. Everything from EJB to Hibernate/Spring and even some Applets. He introduced Scala into his company code base first in 2007 and soon after he was infected by Scala fever, contributing to the Scala IDE, maven-scala-plugin and Scala itself. In 2009 he began writing the book "Scala In Depth" which provides practical support for using Scala in every day applications. Today, Josh is the author of several open source scala projects, including the scala automated resource management library, the PGP sbt plugin, as well as contributing to key components in the Scala ecosystem, like the maven-scala-plugin. His current work at Typesafe Inc. has him doing anything from building MSIs to profiling performance issues. Josh regularly shares his expertise in articles and talks.