Developing highly scalable, interactive and secured next gen applications with Scala and Lift

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Developing Highly Scalable,
Interactive and Secured Next Gen
Applications with Scala and Lift
Rohit Rai

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I, Me and Myself
Technical Architect at Imaginea
Entrepreneur at heart
Tech junkie to the core
email: rohit.r@imaginea.com
twitter: @milliondreams
blog: http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com

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Agenda
Introducing Scala
What is Lift?
Why do I use Lift?
Scala and Lift adoption
Questions

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Introducing Scala
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express
common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It
smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages,
enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive.
http://www.scala-lang.org/
Scala == Tastier Java

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What people have to say…
“If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala”
- James Gosling (Father of Java)
“I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by
by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have
never created Groovy”
- James Strachan
(creator of Groovy)

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Scala is…
Expressive and lightweight
Concise
Pure OO
Extensible
Pragmatic
Very very extensible
and the best part is it runs on the JVM!

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I say, Its yummmmmm!

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What is Lift?
Lift is the most powerful, most secure web framework available today.
http://liftweb.net/
The fast and easy way . . .

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What people have to say…
Four stars to @foursquare - 1st site in a while I have taken a good look at that
didn't have a single security issue.
- Rasmus Lerdorf
(Creator of PHP, Infrastructure Architect at Yahoo!)
Lift is the only new framework in the last four years to offer fresh and innovative
approaches to web development. It redefines the state of the art.
- Michael Galpin, Developer, eBay

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Why do I use Lift?
Highly Interactive Apps
Comet
Ajax
Lazy Loading
Wiring
The View First Workflow
Inherently Secured
Scalability

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I love when I don't have to drive
through the traffic

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Do I get a job on learning it?

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Any Questions?

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Useful links
To learn more on Scala and Lift
http://scala-lang.org
http://twitter.github.com/scala_school/
http://liftweb.net
About us
http://www.imaginea.com
http://www.pramati.com
https://github.com/Imaginea/take-a-lift

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