Play Framework 2 RC2 has been released and it is quickly becoming a mature and productive way to build modern web apps. Lets walk through building a quick app with Play 2, Scala, Anorm, JSON, CoffeeScript, and jQuery. Once the app works locally we will deploy it on the cloud with Heroku. (Note: This is [...]
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Tutorial: Play Framework 2 with Scala, Anorm, JSON, CoffeeScript, jQuery & Heroku
Heroku Java UG Tour: Seattle, Gainesville, and Orlando
My Java User Group Tour continues this week in Seattle, Gainesville, and Orlando. I’ll be presenting about how to run Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on the Cloud. Check out the JUG sites for details: Tuesday February 21 in Seattle Wednesday February 22 at the Gator JUG Thursday February 23 in Orlando Hope to [...]
Video: Java, Play Framework & Scala Apps on Heroku
If you haven’t been able to make it to one of my Java User Group talks about Heroku but you want to see the presentation, then you are in luck! The Portland JUG recorded my talk on Running Java, Play Framework, and Scala Apps on the Cloud with Heroku. Check it out and let me [...]
Next Gen Web Apps with Scala, BlueEyes, and MongoDB
Web application architecture is in the midst of a big paradigm shift. Since the inception of the web we’ve been treating the browser like a thin client. Apps just dump markup to the browser which is then rendered. Every interaction requires a request back to the server which then returns more logic-less markup to the [...]
Java on Heroku at CinJUG, Detroit JUG, and MongoDB Boulder
Over the next few days I’ll be presenting about Java, Play Framework, and Scala on Heroku at a couple Java User Groups and a MongoDB conference: Cincinnati JUG on January 26th Detroit JUG on January 31st MongoDB Boulder on Febuary 1st Hope to see you there!
Java, Play! & Scala on Heroku – This Week in San Diego, Mountain View, and Albany
This week I’ll presenting at three Java User Groups about Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud: San Diego Java User’s Group on Tuesday, January 17th Silicon Valley Web JUG on Wednesday, January 18th The Capital District Java Developers Network on Thursday January 19th Hope to see you there!
Heroku JUG Tour: Boulder, Phoenix, & Portland
For the next wave of the Heroku Java User Group Tour I will be speaking about running Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on the cloud in these three wonderful places: Boulder, Colorado – December 13 Phoenix, Arizona – December 14 Portland, Oregon – December 20 I hope to see you there!
Heroku Java User Group Tour: Columbus and Orange County
The Heroku Java User Group Tour continues next week: Tuesday December 6 at the Central Ohio JUG Thursday December 8 at the Orange County JUG The sessions will teach you how to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud with Heroku. Hope to see you there!
Heroku Preso from Devoxx 2011
As expected… Devoxx 2011 rocked! Such a fun conference with top notch sessions and people. I presented a session on how to deploy Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on Heroku. Matt Raible did a great (and very thorough) write-up on my session. Thanks Matt! Here are my slides: There was also some hot news [...]
