Nathan Hamblen

Nathan Hamblen is founder of a number of Scala free software projects including Dispatch, giter8, and the Scala release announcement site notes.implicit.ly. He is a co-founder of the Unfiltered toolkit for servicing HTTP requests in Scala, co-organizer of the ny-scala Meetup, and Director of Engineering at Meetup.

Sketching in Scala Notebook Session

Scala Notebook provides a new way of interacting with the language, a middle ground between the austerity of the text-mode REPL and the grandiosity of an IDE. The project, based on IPython Notebook, harnesses the REPL to a local HTTP server so that you can work with Scala in the most popular interface of our time — the web browser.

What Scala Notebook hasn't had in its public form is a way to visualize data beyond HTML tables. This talk will explore a new fork of Scala Notebook that renders data in Scalable Vector Graphics, the standard visual language of the web. Going a step further, we'll leverage the popular D3 JavaScript library to smoothly manipulate SVG using live data from Scala Notebook cells.

Setting HTTP Free with Unfiltered and Dispatch Workshop

Unfiltered and Dispatch are two independent libraries that are built with the same philosophy: HTTP libraries have no business telling you how to build your application. But in this workshop, we'll give you some ideas of how to do that.

Jon-Anders Teigen and Nathan Hamblen will build and explain an Unfiltered web site that reflects current real-world conditions using web services accessed through Dispatch.