@Aaronontheweb that's great, I confess that I mostly do the front end stuffs at the company I currently work for, but I consume the akka services the server side ninjas built for me and at times I have the chance to take a peek at the server side coding in scala and it's quite impressive...
That being said, akka and actors programming in general is something I would love to learn, and I just heard about the news of PetaBridge and its plans to offer training on that subject, thus, I'm thrilled to know about it and sign up for a course in the future ;)