Ann: New York Scala Enthusiasts May 18th @ 6:30pm

Nathan Hamblen is presenting at this meetup, so it should be pretty rad. If you check the schedule, you'll notice the meetup is full, but there is a waiting list and since I love all of the scala-blogs readers so much, I can guarantee that everyone on the waiting list will get in.

Here is the summary of Nathan's presentation:

Passing the Buck: How Functional APIs are Easier on Everyone

Nathan Hamblen tells the story of Databinder Dispatch, a project to facilitate client-side HTTP communication in Scala. Dispatch wraps HttpClient to provide a functional interface to HTTP, for defining static interfaces to web APIs or to access any web resource directly.

We'll see how Dispatch's development has gotten around, over, and through the obstacles that face all mortal newcomers to functional programming. How much immutability is enough immutability? What are the flexibility advantages of higher-order functions in programming interfaces? Are there literally a million ways to write the same function literal? And finally, what the $#!$@ does ># mean? These questions and more will be answered Monday May 18.

Nathan writes the weblog Coderspiel about creative programming and, lately, mostly Scala.

URL Rewriting with the Lift Framework

If you're a Lift user, you might like this blog entry about URL rewriting. It explains Lift's URL rewriting scheme and the options available for mapping parameters through to your snippet code. Read the full article here.