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First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 4

This is part 4 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and you can get links to those and other resources...

1 replies - 2786 views - 12/28/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 3

This is part 3 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and you can get links to those and other resources...

1 replies - 2794 views - 12/27/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

First steps in Scala for beginning programmers, Part 2

This is the second in a planned series of tutorials on programming in Scala for first-time programmers, with specific reference to my Fall 2011 course...

0 replies - 3542 views - 12/23/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

How I Was Convinced to Try Scala

The passion of the Scala community has been the key factor that has endeared many developers to the rising JVM language.For over a full year now, I’ve been...

3 replies - 3456 views - 12/22/11 by Jelle Victoor in Articles

The ultimate SQL-DSL: jOOQ in Scala

I’ve recently come across some advertising for the new upcoming version of Scala IDE for Eclipse, which made me remember my college programming lessons at...

1 replies - 3141 views - 12/15/11 by Lukas Eder in Articles

From OO to FP: Haskell I/O, Part 2

In my Part-1 post on this topic, we actually did all the I/O I'm going to do here. We lazily read in the entire sample data file, a file containing data...

0 replies - 2756 views - 12/09/11 by Wayne Adams in Articles

Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

Performance testing of software systems is discussed frequently as an episodic activity that is accomplished once per production release as the final step in...

0 replies - 3578 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

Web sites and web applications have transformed business. They are crucial to your company’s bottom line, whether you are involved in e-commerce, have a...

0 replies - 3546 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

First steps in Scala for first time programmers, Part 1

The is the first of several Scala tutorials I’m creating for my Fall 2011 graduate Introduction to Computational Linguistics course at UT Austin, loosely...

0 replies - 3405 views - 12/05/11 by Jason Baldridge in Articles

How DataSift is Datamining 120K Tweets Per Second

Attention architectural gurus!  Get ready to learn about how one company puts together its amazing datamining architecture, and hopefully you'll also walk...

1 replies - 7888 views - 11/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Scala: Our Retrospective of the benefits/drawbacks

As the closing part of a Scala Experience Report Liz and I gave at XP Day we detailed a retrospective that we’d carried out on the project after 3...

2 replies - 4059 views - 11/30/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

Java/Scala: Runtime.exec hanging/in ‘pipe_w’ state

On the system that I’m currently working on we have a data ingestion process which needs to take zip files, unzip them and then import their contents...

4 replies - 2754 views - 11/24/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

Clojure: expectations - scenarios

When I set out to write expectations I wanted to create a simple unit testing framework. I'm happy with what expectations provides for unit testing;...

0 replies - 2953 views - 11/23/11 by Jay Fields in Articles

Devoxx 2011: A crash course in Scala

Devoxx time again, 4th year that I’m attending. This morning I went to see the talk by Mario Fusco and Kevin Wright. The first part was by Mario and...

0 replies - 2645 views - 11/17/11 by Jelle Victoor in Articles

Typesafe Join Forces With Play! Framework

The Play! framework moves up a gear today with the first public beta of the 2.0 release.  Play! will include native support for Scala and the Typesafe Stack....

0 replies - 3819 views - 11/16/11 by James Sugrue in Articles