First Post!

Hello world!

I’m Jörgen Lundberg and this is the first post on this brand new blog. I plan to do screencasts related to Scala on a probably not so regular basis.

So, why did I start Scala Casts? I started exploring Scala a little more than a year ago and I liked it right from the start. A few weeks later I started the Gothenburg Scala Enthusiasts, a Scala user group here in Gothenburg Sweden. I’ve had so much fun organizing the meetings and meeting other geeks interested in Scala. When we started the user group I was a Scala newbie and the thing I’ve realized during this past year is that you don’t have to be a guru to organize meetups and get interesting discussions going.

I was looking at the Ruby Heroes Awards from RailsConf 2011 and after the awards had been handed out, Gregg Pollack started talking about screencasting. He talked about how David Heinemeier Hansson had told him that “We need more introductory content” and how he created Rails for Zombies and The Code School Screencasting Framework. I was really inspired by that and after watching the video on how to produce a screencast I thought “Hmm, introductory material… I can do that!”.

So, I registered the domain, installed wordpress, got accounts on twitter and github, bought some software and a microphone and I give you Scala Casts!

Finally, I want to thank my company SolidBeans for coughing up the money to buy the software needed and a decent microphone. If you need help developing software for the JVM come check us out.