Releasing a new feature means takings into consideration how it will interact will all of your previous features. Feature flags are a tool to help confront this issue.
Nathan Yergler explains how Eventbrite adapted their code base for internationalization and discusses some of the unique challenges they faced along the way.
This is a quick introduction to sbt 1.0. Josh Suereth describes the new features coming with the 1.0 release and includes a demonstration of the client-server prototype.
Brian McKenna discusses his tool WartRemover: a method of writing linting rules which can be executed as compiler plugins, command line tools, or even as macros.
GeoTrellis is a Scala library for fast, distributed processing and analysis of geographic raster data. It also makes pretty pictures! Find out more in this awesome talk from NE Scala.
Python for beginners with Greg Sadetsky who delivers an introduction for anyone interested in getting started with it. He begins by setting up the environment...
NAO is a humanoid robot that can move around, recognize your face, and even play soccer. Laurent Lec visits SF Java to describe the magic behind this innovation from Aldebaran Robotics.
Summingbird is a library to represent streaming map/reduce in a type-safe way. Oscar Boykin discusses Summingbird's history, its development, and how it is implemented at Twitter.