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Social-Tech Event: Typesafe Night @ 010DEV

Get exposed to the cutting edge technology related to Scala, Akka and Play framework! On the 2nd April 010DEV will have the great honor to welcome James Ward, Roland Kuhn and Nicolas Leroux as speakers. James and Nicolas will give a presentation about mobile development using Play and Roland will introduce us to Actors implementation in Akka. Don't miss this unique opportunity to catch up with the innovation curve and mingle with the 010DEV crowd.

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Abstracts

In this session you will learn how to build mobile apps using HTML5 and Play Framework. We will start by building the RESTful JSON back-end APIs for the application with Play Framework 2. Then using PhoneGap and HTML5 we will create the client-side of the mobile app.

Akka is a toolkit aimed at making it easier and simpler to correctly implement fault-tolerant distributed concurrent systems. At its core lies the actor model, inspired by Erlang OTP but implemented on the JVM. Akka has made a few addition to the traditional semantics, for example mandatory parental supervision, deployment of actor sub-trees by configuration and clustering. This talk will give an introduction on how to write Akka applications and then high-light some of the new features in the upcoming 2.2 release.

Bios

After earning a PhD in high-energy particle physics and working four years as a systems engineer in the space business, Roland came in contact with the Akka project. He started contributing in 2010 and has been employed by Typesafe since 2011 where he has been leading the Akka project since November 2012.

James Ward (www.jamesward.com) works for Typesafe where he teaches developers the Typesafe Stack (Play Framework, Scala, and Akka) . James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the 80′s, James found his passion for writing code. Beginning in the 90′s he began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, then Java. After building a Flex and Java based customer service portal in 2004 for Pillar Data Systems he became a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. In 2011 James became a Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com where he taught developers how to deploy apps on the cloud with Heroku. James Tweets as @_JamesWard and posts code at github.com/jamesward.

Nicolas Leroux is a senior architect and Technical Director at Lunatech, having joined in 2001. Nicolas is an expert early adopter of the Java Enterprise platform as well as the open-source technologies that gravitate around it. He applies this experience and technical expertise of the middleware platform on Lunatech's projects and for Lunatech's clients Nicolas is also an open source enthousiast and more specifically a Java enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the Benelux JBoss User Group and the Riviera Java User Group . He also contributes to the open source frameworks he uses by committing patches. Since 2009, Nicolas has had a passion for the Play framework and is now a core developer of its open-source project.

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Sponsor

Lunatech

Jan 30, 2013
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