Tim Bray recently wrote in a short post entitled Language-Book Principles: I am getting really, really bored with factorial and Fibonacci algorithms. It is really...

I was going through a not-so-recent Java code base that contained the following structure for modeling the employee hierarchy of an organization. This looks quite...

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Scala offers abstract type members as a means to abstract over concrete types of components. The internal type of an abstraction can be hidden from the user who can...

These are the notes I took during our “panelish” Q & A session on Sunday afternoon at RailsConf. Exceptions (behavior between ruby and java) ...

* Collection of Notes about Scala Programming Language ** Data types* Control structures and Logical expressions** About Case expressions : You can use '|' to combine...

This content should only have come from thecodist.com. lift Web Framework Given how much I love writing frameworks (the one running this blog for example), it's cool...

In an earlier post I had talked about building external DSLs using parser combinators in Scala. External DSLs involve parsing of syntax foreign to the native language -...

When I find a language expressive enough to implement the programming idioms succinctly, I like to use the language in my projects. But I constantly have to thunder on...

OnLamp has published this Python implementation of the Greedy Coin Changer. Here is my version of a functional implementation of the same in Scala....

Stephen Colebourne talks about implementing for-each in Java maps. He has proposed changes to be made to javac and queued up his request for approval by appropriate...

There was no shortage of great shows in London last Monday, but without a doubt the hottest ticket in town belonged to Sebastien Tellier’s sold-out performance at the...

We have been sandboxing various alternatives towards scaling out Java/JMS based services that we implemented for our clients quite some time back. The services that form...

In my last post I implemented the greedy algorithm for coin changer in Scala. While greedy algorithms provide optimal solutions for some combinations of coin...

I wish this could be a happy story. But it's really not. If I have made any factual errors in this little rant, don't hesitate to correct me - I would love to be proved...

InfoWorld Test Center compares nine IDEs for Ruby on Rails Development where NetBeans 6.1 takes top honors scoring 9.0 out of 10. Author Martin Heller gives NetBeans a...

I posted this message to the scala list earlier today:jatran is a tool I wrote last summer to transform Java source files into Actionscript 2It is based on Andy Tripp's...

Jonas Boner is working towards an OTP implementation in Scala. Definitely sounds to be a great exercise and may well prove to be a viable and scalable implementation on...

At JavaOne this year, there will be a session entitled "The Script Bowl", in which JRuby, Groovy, and Scala will face off on a series of challenges. I suggested that the...

I'm really looking forward to CodeMash. The slate of speakers and topics looks fantastic; It's really nice to look at a conference schedule and see a lot of topics that...