Is Confluence your documentation / knowledge-management system? Are you sick of its shortcomings? Poor and non-standard rendering. Lack of markdown support. Weird and inconsistent handling of unicode. Do you still think Confluence is a boon for document writing? Just be aware that there are better alternatives.
A primer on Anorm to use the interesting parts - core and combinator functions, as opposed to the mundane way of reading the column from Row
. The post highlights situations when you don’t have a predefined type for the parsed row, and you are dealing with discrete columns in the result set based on time and need.