Scala is a nice language to program on the JVM. It's concise, scalable, powerful, expressive, and integrates well with Java. Your day-to-day tasks like processing XML, matching patterns of various expressions, working with collections and String, are all made simpler, concise, and elegant by the Scala language syntax and build-in libraries. In this presentation you will immerse into the Scala goodness, and learn how you can make use of it in your Java applications.

We will also raffle off a pass to the 2009 Northern Virginia Software Symposium returning November 6-8, 2009.

BIO: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies. He is a veteran speaker at the NFJS conference series (www.nofluffjuststuff.com) and a frequent invited speaker at various other international software conferences. He authored ".NET Gotchas" (O'Reilly), and co-authored the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book "Practices of an Agile Developer," and authored "Programming Groovy" and "Programming Scala" (all from Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Call 703 727-1307 to get it.  After 6 the door is locked, so you will need this number.