Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala. The...
0 replies - 2576 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The following instructions will show you how to get the Scala plug-in working on NetBeans with Windows XP. First, if you haven't done so already, you will need...
2 replies - 2443 views - 09/08/09 by Pierre8r in Tips and Tricks
Scala is a language for the Java Virtual Machine that I have watched with interest for the past couple of years for its Functional (versus Imperative) language characteristics. I was excited a year...
1 replies - 2853 views - 08/21/09 by Tom Jensen in Book Reviews
Don't get me wrong - I've written tons of Java over the last decade or
so & think its been a great evolutionary step from C++ and
Smalltalk (lots of other...
24 replies - 8296 views - 07/08/09 by James Strachan in News
Burton Group has just published the overview I authored titled The New Era of Programming Languages. This is a timely document. The Tiobe Programming Index...
0 replies - 8233 views - 06/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
Walking out of the Moscone Center into the early evening air of San Francisco, it was hard to believe that JavaOne 2009 was over. Sure I'd spent four long days...
4 replies - 2109 views - 06/16/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Articles
In a previous post
I showed you how you could use mixin composition and self type
annotations to enable Dependency Injection (DI). Mixin composition is
an...
0 replies - 3399 views - 12/10/08 by Jonas Boner in Articles
Application performance is no longer a free lunch, and with current hardware trends of cores-for-the-chores, the search is on for the programming model that...
3 replies - 12769 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
One of the main problems brought out when comparing dynamic languages to static ones is lack of proper refactoring support. It is usually implied that dynamic...
0 replies - 2313 views - 08/11/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in Articles
Today, the OSGi bundles concept with SSAP as the application server is one of the most interesting things that developer should know. In addition, Scala is...
1 replies - 5005 views - 08/05/08 by slim.ouertani in Articles
N-BRAIN today announced release of the next micro version of UNA (1.0.7404). This version of UNA adds support for three new languages that run on the Java...
0 replies - 1558 views - 07/11/08 by jdegoes in Announcements
Given a Pair<T, U> type in Java, Scala or C#, such as Map.Entry, Tuple2 or KeyValuePair respectively, you can construct type-checked variadic...
0 replies - 3219 views - 06/25/08 by Ricky Clarkson in Articles
On Paul's return from JavaOne this year, we spoke about Neal Gafter's Closures Cookbook talk. From what I understood, this was a look at the BGGA closures...
2 replies - 3764 views - 06/16/08 by d6y in Articles
People argue that verbose code is easier to understand. Do you agree when reading these two examples, one method in Java, one in Scala?
11 replies - 3832 views - 05/21/08 by joern.zaefferer in News
As a scalable language Scala can be used both for scripting and for large enterprise applications. We at ZeroTurnaround
respect and support the vision of a...
0 replies - 1826 views - 05/21/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in News
