Clojure offers a number of different forms that define types (and generating Java classes. Choosing between deftype, defrecord, reify, proxy, and gen-class can...
0 replies - 3575 views - 07/23/11 by Chas Emerick in Articles
If you do Swing application development, especially the enterprise application type you know lots of code that looks like this: public class Person {
...
0 replies - 4279 views - 07/23/11 by Jens Schauder in Articles
As a parent, I am always looking at what my children are learning and
what they like. As a software developer, I hope that my daughters
embrace their...
4 replies - 37778 views - 07/23/11 by Robert Diana in News
As I mentioned in an earlier post we’ve been parsing XML documents with the Clojure zip-filter API and the next thing we needed to do was create a new XML...
0 replies - 4285 views - 07/21/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
As you probably saw by now, JetBrains just announced that they are working on a brand new statically typed JVM language called Kotlin.
I am planning to write...
4 replies - 4559 views - 07/21/11 by Cedric Beust in Articles
We’ve been coding in Scala on my project for around 6 weeks now and
are getting to the stage where we’re probably becoming a big dangerous
with our...
0 replies - 3564 views - 07/19/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
When making XML requests to Solr (A fulltext document search engine)
for indexing, committing, updating or deleting documents, the request is
submitted as...
0 replies - 6022 views - 07/15/11 by Mats Lindh in News
More than a few times recently we’ve wanted to use pattern matching
on a collection of pairs/tuples and have run into trouble doing so.
It’s easy...
1 replies - 5826 views - 07/14/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
In a previous post
I included a code sample where we were formatting a page range
differently depending on whether the start page and end pages were the...
0 replies - 3197 views - 07/13/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
The paper Functional Programming with Overloading and Higher-Order Polymorphism by Mark P Jones discusses recursion and fixpoints in a section Recursion...
0 replies - 3110 views - 07/12/11 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
I recently read an interesting article by Tom Van Cutsem
where he describes some of the goals that influence the design of
programming languages and one...
0 replies - 3120 views - 07/11/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
We recently came across a problem where we had some logic that we wanted to be used by two classes.
Our original thought was to pull it up into an...
2 replies - 3972 views - 07/10/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
A few days ago I tweeted that I didn’t really see the point in structured types in Scala…
Not sure I understand where you would use structural types...
0 replies - 4706 views - 06/27/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
Modern electric meters (the one attached to the outside of your house)
emit an IR flash for each watt-hour consumed, through the port on the
top of the...
0 replies - 11218 views - 06/24/11 by Michael Mccandless in News
We’re using the Mustache templating engine on my project at the moment and one thing that we wanted to do was build a comma separated list.
Mustache is...
1 replies - 3935 views - 06/23/11 by Mark Needham in Articles
