Scala

Web application architecture is in the midst of a big paradigm shift. Since the inception of the web we’ve been treating the browser like a thin client. Apps just dump markup to the browser which is then rendered. Every interaction requires a request back to the server which then returns more logic-less markup to the browser. In this model our web applications are server applications. There are certainly advantages to this model - especially when the markup consumers don’t have the capabilities to do anything more (or have inconsistent capabilities).

Over the next few days I’ll be presenting about Java, Play Framework, and Scala on Heroku at a couple Java User Groups and a MongoDB conference:

• Cincinnati JUG on January 26th
• Detroit JUG on January 31st
• MongoDB Boulder on Febuary 1st

Hope to see you there!

This week I’ll presenting at three Java User Groups about Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud:

• San Diego Java User’s Group on Tuesday, January 17th
• Silicon Valley Web JUG on Wednesday, January 18th
• The Capital District Java Developers Network on Thursday January 19th

Hope to see you there!

For the next wave of the Heroku Java User Group Tour I will be speaking about running Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on the cloud in these three wonderful places:

• Boulder, Colorado - December 13
• Phoenix, Arizona - December 14
• Portland, Oregon - December 20

I hope to see you there!

The Heroku Java User Group Tour continues next week:

• Tuesday December 6 at the Central Ohio JUG
• Thursday December 8 at the Orange County JUG

The sessions will teach you how to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud with Heroku. Hope to see you there!

As expected… Devoxx 2011 rocked! Such a fun conference with top notch sessions and people. I presented a session on how to deploy Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on Heroku. Matt Raible did a great (and very thorough) write-up on my session. Thanks Matt! Here are my slides:

There was also some hot news at Devoxx… Play Framework 2 is the official web framework in the Typesafe Stack! And Heroku already supports Play 2! Awesome stuff.

Next Monday at the San Francisco Scala User Group I will be co-presenting about Akka, Heroku, sbt and BlueEyes with Mike Slinn - a long time friend and mentor. In the presentation we will be talking about a building client/server apps with HTML5 on the client and Scala & JSON services on the server. We will also show how to deploy these applications on the cloud with Heroku. Hope to see you there!

Devoxx is one of my favorite conferences of the year so I’m lucky to be presenting there again this year. This Thursday at noon I’ll be presenting about Heroku and how to deploy Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on the cloud. Hopefully see you there!

On Wednesday November 9, 2011 I’ll be presenting “Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud” at the Dallas Java User Group. If you are in the Dallas area then I hope to see you there!

Last week I posted the steps to getting started with Play Framework and Scala. Here is a video that walks through those steps in real-time:

Let me know if you have any questions.