The Problem I’ve been asked a lot recently about what template engine I prefer and most people seem shocked when I say that I do my best to avoid them and just generally don’t like the idea of templates. Let me first define what I mean by templates before I get into my explanation so…
Year: 2013
Hyperscala: Web Site
I have been negligent giving proper support to Hyperscala’s public appearance and have spent the past several months working on the API itself. However, today I finally released a very basic web site at hyperscala.org: The site is incredibly basic right now and not all that pretty but it is written in 100% Hyperscala and…
case class Scala
I’ve been pretty busy the past few weeks with clients and haven’t had much time to blog. Last week, however, I gave a presentation to the OKC JUG (Java Users Group) about Scala. As anyone that actually reads my blog must know, Scala is my primary language and I absolutely love it. This week since…
Hyperscala: Why not Play?
This article is continuing in the series on exploring Hyperscala. If you have not already done so, I would highly recommend reading the following previous posts as many topics discussed here build on concepts previously discussed: Hyperscala: An Introduction Hyperscala: Getting Started Hyperscala: Chat Example The Play Framework is perhaps the most popular web framework…
Hyperscala: Chat Example
Up to this point we’ve talked about the high-level features of Hyperscala and have gone through a simple Hello World example, but today we’re going to write a real application to show a fairly simple real-world web application. The real-world application we’re going to write today is a chat example. This will utilize real-time messaging,…
Hyperscala: Getting Started
Last week I did an introduction to Hyperscala and briefly outlined some really cool things it can do. This week I want to slow down a bit and take you through the basics of getting your first application up and running with Hyperscala. Requirements: Since there is a broad number of IDEs / editors used…
Hyperscala: An Introduction
It has been well over a year since my last post. In 2011 I went to work for Overstock and moved to Utah. Life got busy and I worked during the day and when I had time I programmed on Sgine at night (http://www.sgine.org). In February of 2012 I left Overstock and moved back to…