PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags Scala & "web 2.0"

Learn how Scala's functional nature, which aligns well with Twitter's RESTful nature, and its extremely good XML processing features, makes it easy to build a Scala client library to use Twitter API to query its public timeline of tweets. This article shows you by example, how to use Scala to build the basic framework for a client library for accessing Twitter.

Advanced Ajax libraries, such as jQuery, make it easy to write Comet applications on the client side, but getting them to scale on the server is still a challenge. That is where the Scala programming language and the Lift Web application framework can step in and deliver a scalable back end for your Comet application. In this tutorial, build a real-time Web auction using these technologies.