Let's talk about Scala

Hi everyone,

Let's get together for another round of Scala discussions. We have a very special guest joining us from abroad - some of you might know James Ward from Typesafe, but for the record, here's a short bio:

James Ward (www.jamesward.com (http://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 (http://twitter.com/_JamesWard) and posts code at http://github.com/jamesward .

James will be talking about Running Java, Play, and Scala Apps on the Cloud - a very practical discussion for any of us in the space.

Hope to see you there!