After being introduced to Scala and Lift at the SDForum panel on Emerging Languages I asked David Pollak, the lead and BDFL of the Lift web framework, if he would come to Spoke and tell us more about Lift and Scala, and he accepted. That was last Thursday and since I didn’t have any free time during working hours on Friday, I spent some time over the weekend leaning a little Scala and playing around with Lift. One of the first things that I wanted to do was to get Scala and a Lift project up and running on Eclipse. More…