Lift 2.3 Released

Scalathon: Registration is Open

http://specs2.org)

Hi,

I'm glad to announce the version 1.1 of specs2.

Among the new features, you'll find:

 - better ways of including/excluding or skipping examples
 - more methods to create or compose matchers
 - A new ParserMatchers trait to specify parsers built with the parser
combinator library in Scala (thanks to  <at> alexey_r!)
 - More traits to define contexts in which examples must be executed
(Scope, Outside)
 - Configurable and compact-by-default stacktraces
 - Smarter and more configurable differences with matchers

The full list of features and fixes is here: http://implicit.ly/specs2-11

Have fun with specs2!

Eric.

Programming in Scala, First Edition, Online

Hi All,

We just released the first edition of Programming in Scala in its
entirety, for free in HTML. We're hoping it will lower the barrier of
entry for people curious about Scala and provide a very comprehensive
online reference and tutorial for active Scala programmers. We
inserted anchors on all the sections (with little [link] tags so you
can find them easily) to make it easier for you to point others to
specific sections. Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to
make it more useful. You can check it out here:

http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/

Thanks.

Bill
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Artima, Inc.
http://www.artima.com

Next Scala workshop by Escalate is May 23-27 in Ann Arbor, Mi
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ScalaQuery 0.9.2 released

specs2 1.2

Hi,

A new version of specs2 just arrived. This version adds new features
on top of 1.1:

 - Support for the Given/When/Then style of specification: fully
typechecked and integrated with ScalaCheck for random generation of
values
 - Additional Before/After traits: to easily define a context for each
example in a Specification
 - stopOnFail: a new argument to stop the execution of a specification
in case of a failure or an error
 - Better Either matchers
 - A NotifierRunner to execute a specification be notified of
execution events
 - The latest IntelliJ scala plugin now executes specs2 specifications
with some cool features: execution of a single example, jump to source
 - The User Guide has a global table of contents for easier navigation
of the documentation
 - Scalaz classes are now provided in the specs2 jar so that Scalaz is
not a required dependency anymore

Have fun with specs2!

Eric.

sbt-netbeans-plugin 0.0.1

sbt-netbeans-plugin plugin enhances SBT project layout with the
scripts, folders, config and property files required by Netbeans.
Netbeans configs hereafter are merged with the SBT project properties,
setting valid compile/test classpath (and other properties), which
enables correct displaying of the project structure (including
dependent projects), code highlighting and completion in the IDE. If
the project has subprojects, plugin creates Netbeans project layout
for all of them.

Plugin home: https://github.com/remeniuk/sbt-netbeans-plugin
Guide to using SBT in Netbeans with sbt-netbeans-plugin: http://goo.gl/H1LAz

ScalaTest 1.4.RC2 for Scala 2.9.0.RC2 released

Hi All,

I just released ScalaTest 1.4.RC2 and deployed to scala-tools.org. It
is compiled against 2.9.0.RC2. You can get it via Maven or sbt with:

group id: org.scalatest
artifact id: scalatest
version: 1.4.RC2

Or download it directly from:

http://www.scala-tools.org/repo-releases/org/scalatest/scalatest/1.4.RC2/

Sorry, I never released something called RC1. I released that one as a
1.4-SNAPSHOT. But really it is an RC already, so I should call it
that. In the future I'll try to match the N in RCN of the Scala
compiler release. That will hopefully make it more obvious which
ScalaTest release goes which Scala release more obvious for users, but
will only work so long as I don't need to do an extra RC. I'm clearly
still trying to figure out how best to name releases in a world of
binary incompatibility. Suggestions welcome.

ScalaTest compiled fine with 2.9.0.RC2. Other than breaking some of my
overspecified tests, which I need to fix anyway, all tests passed.
Please let me know if you see anything that looks like a ScalaTest
problem.

ScalaTest 1.4 is essentially ScalaTest 1.3 with any changes needed to
get it to compile with Scala 2.9.0. The next release with new features
will be 1.5, which I expect to release an RC for within a few weeks.
There's a 1.5-SNAPSHOT also available if you want to check out what's
in coming, but it works with Scala 2.8.x.

Thanks.

Bill
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Bill Venners
Artima, Inc.
http://www.artima.com

P.S. We still have some room in our Ann Arbor Scala training courses
coming up in May. More info is here:

http://www.artima.com/shop/scala_ann_arbor

ScalaQuery 0.9.3 released