Is anyone here very familiar with AWS?

@phinneas Sure, though I bet there are even more familiar folks hanging out in #aws and #aws-lambda

there's also #portkey

What causes an error of the form

java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 65: 
     index: 65
     input: ""
    reason: "Illegal character in path"

@qqq to me that looks like something that should have been a template got used directly

it’s not an error in pom.xml, it’s an error in something that generates a link to the latest pom, to my eye

Is there a CIDER channel?

yes, it’s #cider

Thanks @noisesmith - How do I make it appear on the left side channel menu? Sorry, still new to slack..

ooops never mind…got it 🙂

@kingcode You can click on a channel name in the chat when someone has mentioned it (#cider will be a link you can click on in this message and in @noisesmith's message above). If you're new to Slack, feel free to join #slack-help and ask any questions you may have there.

Thank you @seancorfield!

Sorry, should have used slack-help first 🙂

And, Welcome, by the way!

hi all, has anybody used Apach Batik before? I'm having some trouble with generation a pdf from a svg and google/stackoverflow is not helping 😛

@noisesmith: I went around and replaced every occurance of ${project.version} with its literal value -- everything appears to work [though I have no idea why]

I'm reading http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.10.3/#scala.collection.concurrent.Map From this, I can set/get on a Scala Map. However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to create a Scala Map. Anyone know how? [I think the problem is that Scala Map are typed, so to even create one, I need to somehow specify the Key / Value types]

@qqq it shows it's abstract, and the only thing it shows implmenting the class is TrieMap which has a constructor

unless I'm reading it totally wrong, I'm not a scala expert

@noisesmith: after some digging, I got

(.empty Map$/MODULE$)

weird!

ISTR Foo$MODULE$ (or something like that) is the classname of the “companion object” for classes/traits

what are "companion object" and "traits" ? (and are "classes" java Classes, or do they mean something else)

traits are kinda like interfaces, but not really

companion objects are basically “all the static methods you would put in the class”

so (.empty Map$/MODULE$) is kinda like (Map/empty), but also not

man, scala is weird, after looking at it again after using clojure