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I've finished Martin Odersky's Scala Course. I've built a few small play2.0 apps. I've used Scala to solve ~20 Project Euler problems, and I'm fiddling around with parsers and scalaz. However, all the Scala positions I've found are looking for engineers with experience using Scala in production. How can I make that jump? Are there any opportunities out there for junior engineers who are proficient in Scala?
If you are in the UK, let me know...
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"From ∅ to Distributed Service"
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I've been interested in venturing into Scala but have not found a good resource for getting a development environment setup. Should I be using an IDE or will sbt/Sublime be sufficient?
You'll level up much faster with an IDE (IMO). Ensime in Sublime is kinda pointless I think since it only updates on file change. The REPL and SBT integration is nice. I use Sublime for quick examples in Scala, or as a VIM alternative for larger projects (as opposed to my main editor like with Ruby). For most of my Scala work I use IntelliJ though. The lack of half-decent theming in Eclipse and Preferences/Settings b…
> The lack of half-decent theming in Eclipse and
> Preferences/Settings being all over the place
> really puts me off ScalaIDE personally.
I've finished Martin Odersky's Scala Course. I've built a few small play2.0 apps. I've used Scala to solve ~20 Project Euler problems, and I'm fiddling around with parsers and scalaz. However, all the Scala positions I've found are looking for engineers with experience using Scala in production. How can I make that jump? Are there any opportunities out there for junior engineers who are proficient in Scala?
It's worth mentioning that I got into Scala because of Akka. Amazing features like remote actors, supervision and more. I also appreciate how active the project is :) https://github.com/akka/akka
Starting out, it makes sense to just "write Java in Scala", and gradually introduce the advanced concepts of Scala as you learn them. That way, you can be immediately productive.
I've finished Martin Odersky's Scala Course. I've built a few small play2.0 apps. I've used Scala to solve ~20 Project Euler problems, and I'm fiddling around with parsers and scalaz. However, all the Scala positions I've found are looking for engineers with experience using Scala in production. How can I make that jump? Are there any opportunities out there for junior engineers who are proficient in Scala?
I've been interested in venturing into Scala but have not found a good resource for getting a development environment setup. Should I be using an IDE or will sbt/Sublime be sufficient?
I've finished Martin Odersky's Scala Course. I've built a few small play2.0 apps. I've used Scala to solve ~20 Project Euler problems, and I'm fiddling around with parsers and scalaz. However, all the Scala positions I've found are looking for engineers with experience using Scala in production. How can I make that jump? Are there any opportunities out there for junior engineers who are proficient in Scala?
If you guys really into Scala, I really recommend trying Finagle ( https://github.com/twitter/finagle ). It was also created by Twitter. It was a lightweight HTTP server and client for Scala. It's my favorite. With just a "single" line of code, you can create an HTTP server in Scala. I usually combine it with Rogue ( https://github.com/foursquare/rogue ), an "ORM"-like for MongoDB. I used Finagle and Rogue to build a…
How do Rogue and Casbah stack up against each other?
Casbah was always created to be a straight MongoDB driver, with no ORM features. It has no dependencies on "external" projects other than the MongoDB Java driver, so that you can use it where-ever and write standard queries.
It has been awhile since I played with Rogue, so forgive any mistakes but the big one: Rogue is specifically built as an ORM, with integration into Lift.
Really, you are going to use Rogue vs. Lift to accomplish very different tasks. There is Salat (https://github.com/novus/salat), to provide ORM features on top of Casbah.
Pick which tool works best for your use case! I happen to think quite highly of Rogue as well, as there are some tremendously impressive features in it including detecting potential Table scans. Rogue is fairly well battle tested on the Foursquare systems, and the authors are both very, very good at what they do.