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…
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:…
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.…
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…
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...
Web Development Shouldn't Be Hard! — . I've spent most of my career developing in Java for the web. I've used the full range of frameworks: Servlets, JSPs, Struts, JSF, Wicket, and dozens more. Early in my career I did a lot of Swing development. Now I grant there are a lot of inherent problems there as well, but nowhere near the...
Why is Scala more difficult than Java? — . I was pretty exclusively a Java developer for twelve years before making the switch to Scala. Yes, it was difficult to learn some of the syntactical differences, but now that I have I don't want to turn back. No, this is not a baited question to get a flame-war going, but an honest attempt to...
Learning Scala: scala.Either — . I would consider myself pretty competent with Scala at this point, but there is still so much I have yet to learn. Something I always used to do in Java was to work my way one class at a time through the JavaDocs of the language I am attempting to do with Scala now as...
The Pitfall of Programmer ADD — . Programmer ADD: The (often external) push to work on many projects at a time rather than focusing on and accomplishing one task at a time. I currently work for a small company and unfortunately that means I'm constantly being pulled in many directions. There just aren't enough people to do…