December 2010
14 posts
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Media hacks
Let it be noted that Julian Assange’s book deal with established publishing houses—which makes it is likely that Amazon, a company that denied his organization its Web Services on highly dubious grounds, will someday carry his autobiography—is a nice hack indeed.
Dec 30th
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highchair 0.0.1 - implicit.ly →
Highchair aims to provide an idiomatic and natural API for persisting scala objects to the Google App Engine datastore.
Dec 29th
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Monads Are Not Metaphors →
Everyone seems to have a different take on the subject, meaning that those attempting to learn the concept for the first time are stuck trying to reason out the commonalities between burritos, space suits, elephants and desert Bedouins. Daniel is opening the Northeast Scala Symposium, by the way.
Dec 27th
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“The behaviour of those objects is in part defined at object initialization time,...”
– First-class Scala Lift support in JRebel
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Java's loose threads
Waffle is horrified that thread-blocking network operations are de rigueur in Java and Android: I’d like to hear from any Android developers whether there’s any architectural reason to actually do a new thread. Conventional wisdom and past experience, including several operating systems with millions of users, says you don’t have to do it. Are there any constraints I’m missing, or is it that...
Dec 15th
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“Getting at such APIs, randomly and interactively, has been impossible before JSR...”
– Scheme in one class
Dec 15th
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“These pages describe the architecture of the Scala collections framework in...”
– The Architecture of Scala Collections
Dec 15th
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Making Meetup Smaller For Bigger Meetup Events →
makingmeetup: Sometimes when you want to have a bigger impact you need less, not more. Meetup is full of lots of nice features to help make organizers’ lives easier. You may not realize this, but we roll them out all the time. Since most of these features apply to all events, every event page is full of ways… Scala stuffs after the jump!
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Northeast Scala Symposium: voting deadline... →
We’re having a BIG all-day Scala meetup in New York on February 18, the Northeast Scala Symposium. People are coming from all over the place and it’s going to be super-sweet. But various clocks are ticking! The first is the deadline to vote for the headline presentation. You have until midnight EST on this Wednesday, December 15th, to get your vote in. Thursday we’ll announce...
Dec 13th
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a soft sea: magic match sticks and burnt fingers →
asoftsea: First class pattern matching support is one of the many ways Scala stole my heart. I now use pattern matching as a superior refactoring and design tool in place of most every use case where I would historically insert another stray branch into a nest of ifs or query methods. Scala’s match… Backticks!
Dec 11th
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Dec 7th
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“Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in...”
– Julian Assange answers your questions
Dec 4th
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