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As a past and present small business owner, computer programmer, application designer, and a consultant who gets paid by the hour, my primary interest when creating software applications is this: How do I/we create great software applications as fast as possible? That is, how can we be more productive today than we were yesterday?

Researchers at Colorado University Boulder released an announcement today about the development of a "swarm" of ping-pong ball size robots. From their announcement:

Just a quick note that if you're looking for a way to generate CRUD forms for the Play Framework 2, I've created a set of templates to work with my Cato CRUD Generator to help you create CRUD forms in just a few minutes. Here's a link to my Play Framework 2 CRUD example on my personal website.

While I'm just beginning to get started on my Scala video tutorials, there are many great websites where you can begin to learn Scala today. Here are just a few:

While my Scala Cookbook will be coming out soon -- currently planned with over 350 recipes and 550 pages -- I've also written over 125 Scala tutorials on my personal website. Those tutorials include examples of how to use collections methods like flatMap and reduceLeft, Map classes and methods, Play Framework examples, and much more.

When I first moved to the Boulder, Colorado area, I intended to start Valley Programming here. Almost immediately a few things changed, and now, a few months later, my new book, the Scala Cookbook from O'Reilly Media, is nearing completion. The first draft of the book has been sent off to the editor and reviewers, and the cookbook should be available in just a few months.

I've been busy writing my third book (and second book of the year), but I recently took a little time to look up, and then look around the Boulder, Colorado area, and lo and behold I found a very interesting company in Mobiplug. Here's a description of what they do, from their website:

I'll write more about this in the near future, but for today I just wanted to make a quick announcement that my new book, "You want me to do what? A Survival Guide for New Consultants", is now available on Amazon.com. You can either click that link to get a free preview of the book on Amazon, or click the image below:

Just a quick note today that if you want to create a JavaBean class in Scala (a Scala JavaBean), you can use the @BeanProperty annotation as shown here:

Just a quick note today that I passed a little milestone on the devdaily site over the weekend. I now have over sixty Scala tutorials in my Scala programming tutorials/cookbook series.