David Pollak has been writing commercial software since 1977. He wrote the award-winning Mesa spreadsheet, which in 1992 was the first real-time spreadsheet. Wall Street companies traded billions of dollars a day through Mesa. In 1996, David sold his company to CMP Media and became CTO of CMP Media's NetGuide Live and was one of the first large-scale users of Java and WebLogic to power an Internet site. In 1998, David released Integer, the world's first browser-accessible, multiuser spreadsheet. Since 2000, David has been consulting for companies including Hewlett-Packard, Pretzel Logic/WebGain, BankServ, Twitter, and SAP. David has been using Scala since 2006 and is the lead developer of the Lift Web framework.

• About Scala and How to Install It.- Scala Syntax, Scripts, and Your First Scala Programs.- Collections and the Joy of Immutability.- Fun with Functions, and Never Having to Close That JDBC Connection.- Pattern Matching.- Actors and Concurrency.- Traits and Types and Gnarly Stuff for Architects.- Parsers—Because BNF Is Not Just for Academics Anymore.- Scaling Your Team.

David Pollak has been writing commercial software since 1977. He wrote the award-winning Mesa spreadsheet, which in 1992 was the first real-time spreadsheet. Wall Street companies traded billions of dollars a day through Mesa. In 1996, David sold his company to CMP Media and became CTO of CMP Media's NetGuide Live and was one of the first large-scale users of Java and WebLogic to power an Internet site. In 1998, David released Integer, the world's first browser-accessible, multiuser spreadsheet. Since 2000, David has been consulting for companies including Hewlett-Packard, Pretzel Logic/WebGain, BankServ, Twitter, and SAP. David has been using Scala since 2006 and is the lead developer of the Lift Web framework.

• About Scala and How to Install It.- Scala Syntax, Scripts, and Your First Scala Programs.- Collections and the Joy of Immutability.- Fun with Functions, and Never Having to Close That JDBC Connection.- Pattern Matching.- Actors and Concurrency.- Traits and Types and Gnarly Stuff for Architects.- Parsers—Because BNF Is Not Just for Academics Anymore.- Scaling Your Team.

David Pollak has been writing commercial software since 1977. He wrote the award-winning Mesa spreadsheet, which in 1992 was the first real-time spreadsheet. Wall Street companies traded billions of dollars a day through Mesa. In 1996, David sold his company to CMP Media and became CTO of CMP Media's NetGuide Live and was one of the first large-scale users of Java and WebLogic to power an Internet site. In 1998, David released Integer, the world's first browser-accessible, multiuser spreadsheet. Since 2000, David has been consulting for companies including Hewlett-Packard, Pretzel Logic/WebGain, BankServ, Twitter, and SAP. David has been using Scala since 2006 and is the lead developer of the Lift Web framework.

• About Scala and How to Install It.- Scala Syntax, Scripts, and Your First Scala Programs.- Collections and the Joy of Immutability.- Fun with Functions, and Never Having to Close That JDBC Connection.- Pattern Matching.- Actors and Concurrency.- Traits and Types and Gnarly Stuff for Architects.- Parsers—Because BNF Is Not Just for Academics Anymore.- Scaling Your Team.