Dave Briccetti
Software developer, Dave Briccetti Software LLC
Software developer and computer programming teacher for grades 3–12.
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 8th and 9th, 2011.Session
Scala and Lift Introduction, and TalkingPuffin Web: A Scala Lift Webapp
About This Session
Learn about Scala and Lift from two committers to the Lift web framework project, Indrajit Raychaudhuri and Dave Briccetti.
No Scala or Lift experience is needed, but programming experience would be helpful.
Indrajit, who just gave a talk on Lift at JavaOne, will introduce Scala and Lift. Then Dave will present an open source Web application for Twitter, TalkingPuffin Web. Some topics from Dave's presentation:
- A small Scala wrapper around the Java Twitter library, Twitter4J
- Generating Web page XML constructs using functional features
- A Lift widget for the Flot jQuery plotting library, with new pan and zoom support
- Word frequency counting, for finding often-used words, and frequently @mentioned screen names
- Using Scala functional features to analyze Tweets
- Ajax and Comet with Lift
- Running under Jetty and Tomcat
Here’s a look at TalkingPuffin Web from the outside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUw04qkP0Q
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