Spde’s sbt integration is moving right along, with an applet action to export a Proguard-stripped applet jar and basic HTML template, bringing the live examples page back to life. And because futures are so awesome, yet the Scala impl is a little wonky, Spde wraps java.util.concurrent’s Future for rad, simple concurrency as demonstrated in the new Trending example sketch.

Actual Scala job posted in New York, or else they want electrical engineers for a generating station: “Udorse is seeking powerhouse engineers willing to push the boundaries of what’s possible in social media [blah blah …] Experience with Scala and the Lift framework strongly preferred.” If Coderspiel could afford a siren gif, it would be here.

Methods of the madness: “This brings me to the charges that Scala is a complex language with arbitrary differences from other popular languages. I want to make the argument that these charges are false. Scala is a very well-thought-out, highly orthogonal language. Much of what I’ve learned about Scala I’ve learned by attempting to generalize from concrete examples, and overwhelmingly those generalizations are successful.”

Speaking of our city, New York City Wants You to Create an App For That

Idioms under construction: “My observation so far about abstract type members is that they are primarily a better choice than generic type parameters when you want to let people mix in definitions of those types via traits. You may also want to consider using them when you think the explicit mention of the type member name when it is being defined will help code readability.”

Maven 3 will make that most rigid builder much more extensible: “The Maven core now provides an underlying DSL to access the Maven internals, and write POM files in the language of your choice. This currently includes scripting languages like Groovy, Ruby, and others. In short, you will be able to write a DSL for virtually any scripting language you like that can hook into the Maven internals and pilot the Maven build process.”

Acting up: “Lift recently made the shift away from Scala Actors to a more generic Actor solution that allows for the use of Lift’s lightweight Actors as well as Akka Actors.”

Mozila Raindrop, allegedly not an e-mail client: “Version 0.1 of our prototype embeds Bespin to support a fast, iterative development style. It also provides front-end widgets and back-end code that supports important high-level concepts such as people, conversations, and mailing lists, with more to come. CouchDB and Python are key parts of our prototype architecture as well.”