Welcome to another edition of #ThisWeekInScala. My choice chirp this week: @psnively: It’s OK to believe #scala is complex. The problem is believing #java, #csharp, #ruby, #python, #php, #javascript aren’t. …closely followed by: @jessitron: #Scala and F# are like … Read more
Welcome to another edition of #ThisWeekInScala. Lot’s of good content from the Scala world as usual! New Stuff eventsourced 0.5.0 released scalable actor state persistence for Akka A macro paradise branch was created for Scala 2.11.x and 2.1o.x sbt-pack plugin v … Read more
Welcome to another edition of #ThisWeekInScala. I’ll leave the preamble this week since there’s lots of content to share! New Stuff Typesafe released Activator, an easy way to get started with Scala, Akka and Play framework quickly postgresql-async 0.1 was released … Read more
I have an exciting (sad, I know, but I do find this sort of thing exciting) description of multi-module SBT build, complete with publishing to Sonatype, dependency graphs and other goodies. Head over to the home of https://github.com/eigengo/akka-extras and read … Read more
Ready for some Haskell? In this episode we’ll deal with an important part of each webapp/rest server development process: we’ll talk with an external entity. It’s very common during modern web development to fetch, integrate and trasform data coming from … Read more
Welcome to another edition of #ThisWeekInScala. @coltfred: Seeing #intel hiring #scala devs makes me happy. Glad to see the language getting more and more acceptance in the enterprise world. It had to happen eventually – the enterprise world finally waking … Read more
Let’s continue our journey in building a fully fledged Haskell webapp. In Scala we have the awesome Typesafe library called Config to deal with configurations. What about Haskell? Click on the link below to unravel the mystery: Episode 3 on … Read more
Welcome to another edition of #ThisWeekInScala. Did you know that Java 8 has been further delayed until around March 2014? So if you’re not yet enjoying lambdas and optional types, etc, etc then now is the time to get going … Read more
We built a tiny (4.5KB, < 200 lines of code) JQuery Bootstrap plugin for MindMup that turns any DIV into a WYSIWYG rich-content editor, and just open-sourced it. Here are the key features: Automatically binds standard hotkeys for common operations on Mac and Windows Supports image drag & drop, uploading...
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In the previous post I wrote about the key conclusions from the recent meeting on delivering software that makes a big impact. One of the best things about the meeting was that we did set-based design on the conclusions (big thanks to Karl Scotland for suggesting this). While the group...
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We’ve seen people add book summaries on MindMup and we’d like to create a library. So map out your book tips – a summary of a book you read and liked recently, share it on twitter with a hashtag #bookfriday and we’ll randomly choose two people who participated to send...
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