JVM Languages
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Gang of Four Patterns With Type-Classes and Implicits in Scala (Part 2)
Type-classes are a powerful tool for library creators and maintainers. They reduce boilerplate, open libraries to extension, and act as…
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Promises and futures in Clojure
Clojure, being designed for concurrency is a natural fit for our Back to the Future series. Moreover futures are supported…
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Monitoring Key JVM Characteristics with Groovy, JMX, and RuntimeMXBean
Since J2SE 5, Platform MBeans have been available that allow some key characteristics regarding the JVM to be monitored and…
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Dependency injection with Scala macros: auto-wiring
You can look at dependency injection as a fancy name for passing parameters to a function (or constructor arguments to…
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Gang of Four Patterns With Type-Classes and Implicits in Scala
Type-classes, as they’re known within the Scala language, have a wonderful place in library development. They make code open to…
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Groovy and HTTP Servers
This article originally appeared in the January 2013 issue of GroovyMag. There’s no denying that the World Wide Web has…
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Futures in Akka with Scala
Akka is actor based, event-driven framework for building highly concurrent, reliable applications. Shouldn’t come a surprise that concept of a…
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Finding Properties in JARs with Groovy
In previous blog posts I have looked at Searching JAR Files with Groovy to find entries (such as .class files)…
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Using Twitter4j with Scala to perform user actions
Introduction My previous post showed how to use Twitter4j in Scala to access Twitter streams. This post shows how to…
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