JVM Languages
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Student Questions about Scala, Part 2
Preface This is the second post answering questions from students in my course on Applied Text Analysis. You can see…
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Groovy 1.8.0 – meet JsonBuilder!
Groovy 1.8.0 released in April brought a lot of new features to the language, one of them is native JSON…
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Simple but powerful DSL using Groovy
In one of my projects we had very complicated domain model, which included more than hundred of different domain object…
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Student Questions about Scala, Part 1
Preface I’m currently teaching a course on Applied Text Analysis and am using Scala as the programming language taught and…
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Apache Camel – A little Scala DSL example
So we have a Scala DSL in Apache Camel for many years now, and I guess its about time I…
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Variations for computing results from sequences in Scala
Introduction A common question from students who are new to Scala is: What is the difference between using the map…
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Implicit Conversions in Scala
Following on from the previous post on operator overloading I’m going to be looking at Implicit Conversions, and how we…
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Scala: Working with Predicates
I love me some Scala. Actually, since it’s now my day job, I love it all the time. It combines…
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First steps with Scala, say goodbye to bash scripts…
Those who know me are aware that I’ve been following play framework, and actively taking part of it’s community, for…
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