JVM Languages
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A crash course in Scala types
After many years of Java development, discovering Scala’s type system and related features was something of a departure for me.…
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Partial updates in an immutable World
This post was prompted by a conversation with a good friend, who is an experienced Java developer taking their first,…
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Processing JSON in Scala with Jerkson
Introduction The previous tutorial covered basic XML processing in Scala, but as I noted, XML is not the primary choice…
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Squealer: An Anti-ORM Influenced Scala Tool
I was reading a blog post from Prismatic the other day and it got me thinking about how we, as…
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Scala Basic XML processing
Introduction Pretty much everybody knows what XML is: it is a structured, machine-readable text format for representing information that can…
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Publishing Play 2 modules on github
Now you’ve doubtless followed my earlier guides on writing modules for Play 2, I imagine you’re keen to show your…
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Binary websockets with Play 2.0 and Scala
In a recent article I showed how you can use webrtc, canvas and websockets together to create a face detection…
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Exposing Functionality Over HTTP with Groovy and Ultra-Lightweight HTTP Servers
I needed a quick and simple way to enable some users to query a table and figured out that the…
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Play framework 2 quicktip: Scala console
When I first started to play with Scala, I was amazed by the Scala interactive interpreter (also known as REPL,…
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