When I started with Scala in 2011 it was a pretty easy sell: show any Java developer the collections library, maybe a couple of lambdas...

Though the question of “How to query data from a database?” is quite an old one, we still have a reason to investigate it nowadays. True,...

For quite awhile we have been maintaining an application that processes XML and JSON data. Usually the maintenance consists of fixing...

In this post i will demonstrate a nice trick to add “extension methods” for a given class. Note: The feature is based on implicit class...

One of the most common pattern we use on our day to day is converting objects from one type of object to another. The reasons for that...

At Wix, we make extensive use of the Specs² testing framework. It has become the standard tool for writing software specifications in our...

In this post I will cover usage of the Slick library, which provides a Scala-centric API over JDBC. Slick offers 3 flavors for querying...

So we have some Scala code that consumes text from an InputStream from an HTTP response. So, like any good Scala developer, I handed over...

How many times did you find yourself looking at an API which accepts some sort of string or int-based identifier and not being sure what...

In slightly more than 2 weeks, Tomer Gabel – with whom I have founded Underscore, the Israeli Scala user group – and myself are hosting...