If you can’t make it to the Android + Scala talk tonight, because you are on another continent, we’ll be broadcasting live starting at 23:30 UST.

Dispatch 0.6.5 published with sbt 0.6.9 to support Scala up to 2.8.0.Beta1-RC6. Also includes a neat multipart-post listener that will get some action in tonight’s Meetup.

Introducing Akka: “For fault-tolerance Akka adopts the ‘Let it crash’, also called ‘Embrace failure’, model…”

Quick fix for Nexus One development on Ubuntu.

sbt 0.6.10 is out. It is the build tool for crazy people that want to follow Scala 2.8 beta-release-canditates.

Batteries, on the way: “I like the idea that scala is now where python was a few years ago, i.e. that the frustrations that I’m running into are rough edges that will get smoothed out soonish. … I still love python, but I’m happy to restore an elegant statically typed languge to my toolset after Modula-3 went fallow, especially one that interoperates with the java platform everywhere from android mobile devices to Google App Engine.”

Couverjure: “a direct bridge between Clojure and Objective-C. … while it may involve some Java code, it does not involve first bridging between Objective-C and Java classes (i.e using Rococoa), and then using Clojure’s Java interop to work with those classes. Instead it attempts to go direct to the Objective-C Runtime as much as possible and does not attempt to cater to Java code at all.” Is this like writing half your book in Basque?

The secret is out: “No binary compatibility between Scala versions. This means that code compiled with Scala 2.7.3 is not (in general) compatible with code compiled with 2.7.5 and needs to be recompiled. This is not a big deal for our own code, but it does make it difficult to move to another version since all the Scala libraries used needs to be released first.” But if all libraries use sbt cross-build to publish this, this, and this, the deadlock is resolved.

When HTML stops being polite: “Sometimes you want to process real world HTML as if it were XML in Scala. This is in fact quite easy…”