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I'm curious if there's interest in a Scala learning/hacking session. Coming out of the Javapolis conference a couple weeks ago, there is more buzz around Scala's potential to be the right way to get modern/functional language features on the JVM. Even if it doesn't work out that way, we're supposed to learn one new language a year, and it wouldn't hurt to do it in January.

Any interest in doing this? If so, maybe I'll fwd to a wider audience (java users group?)

Hey DC smart people,

The company I'm working at, Positive Energy, is hiring engineers among other things. Positive Energy is a fast-growing, venture-funded startup working with electric and gas utilities as well as state governments to reduce residential electric and gas consumption and combat global warming. We're located in Arlington, 2 blocks from the Courthouse Metro. The code is Java, yeah, but nice clean and modern Spring. We do some RoR work too, and will have some web design com… Continue