Interviews

Although we won't have Scala Days this year, the Scala Love conference is all the rage. The technology lets us transcend physical boundaries – we can unite while being far away... well, at least as long as there are tickets left ;) Owing to high demand, the IntelliJ Scala team has volunteered to extend the conference by hosting a third track called Harmony, in addition to the two existing ones, Joy and Happiness: Feel free to submit a talk in the extra Call for Papers (closed). Register to attend the Harmony track. Schedule (Google Calendar) 11:45 – 12:00 CEST / 02:45 – 03:0

This is a guest blog post by Jeff Zhang, a speaker at multiple events around Big Data, an active contributor to various open source projects related to Big Data, an Apache member, and a staff engineer at Alibaba Group. Last week, Jeff did a webinar for JetBrains Big Data Tools where he gave an overview on who data engineers are and what tools they use. The webinar was so interesting that we asked Jeff to write this guest post for our blog. This blog post will be especially interesting to you if you’re curious about data engineering, how it’s done, and what tools are used for it. Hopefully, we’

Scala Days is not only a major event for the Scala community, but also a great place to meet amazing people and get inspiration. If you've been to Scala Days in Berlin this year, you might have seen a great talk "Serious Fun with Scala" by a 14 years old Shadaj Laddad, Scala enthusiast and wunderkind. We couldn't miss the chance to catch Shadaj and ask him a few questions for our blog about Scala, learning programming, game development, math and science. At OSCON 2014 you gave a splendid opening keynote "The Wonders of Programming". At your age this talk has not only made you famous as one of

As some of you may know, this June the whole Scala plugin team took a break and went to Berlin to enjoy Scala Days 2014, and of course to meet IntelliJ IDEA users! Alexander Podkhalyuzin, a lead developer of the Scala plugin, used this chance to catch Jason Zaugg, a Scala rockstar and developer at Typesafe, and talk about Scala Compiler, Dotty and IntelliJ IDEA. Enjoy the interview! Alexander: How did you first hear about Scala? Jason: A colleague of mine saw Martin Odersky present Scala at a conference in 2008. He shared his impressions of the language at our team’s weekly tech talk, an