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Recently I started reading Doug Feith's War and Decision. I say "started reading" because I have not finished it yet. The book...

One of my favorite features in Scala is its native support for XML (link warning, shameless plug.) I love the "projections DSL" (f...

I am slowly plugging away on my little side project . One of the fun things about "pimping" an API, is you can tweak the design of...

I'm not going to talk about it . However, it reminds me of some things from my past... First, let me take you back to 2001. I was workin...

It's the middle of the MLB season, and the All-Star Game is next week. This season has had its share of surprises so far. Since I live i...

If you are a long time reader of this blog ... nevermind there are no long time readers of this blog. Anyways as it turns out, two of my mos...

I've been using iLife '09 since it came out. I've made heavy use of its integration with Facebook and Flickr. One of the feature...

Last month I was in Israel for three weeks. These three weeks included the date of my anniversary. I still wanted to do something nice for m...

Recently I was working on an article for developerWorks about using Scala on Android. Stay tuned to developerWorks to see that article. Sinc...

In case you haven't heard, HTML 5 is The New Hotness . I have been watching this tide rising for awhile. There have been many skirmishe...

I got to see Scala creator Martin Odersy speak twice last week. First time was at the June BASE meeting, and the second was at the Scala Lif...

Below are the sldies. Major thanks to Charlie Nutter for great feedback and advice on the Ruby code and tuning JRuby performance. Thanks to ...

RIAs Done Right: Grails, Flex, and EXT GWT View more PDF documents from michael.galpin .

Today I was attending a talk on Scala Actor by Phillipp Haller and Frank Sommers. Tyler asked me to live blog it. I thought that was a good...

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See this post about why this code is being shown. See this post for the Java version to compare against. class PyReversible(object): _...

See this post about why this code is being shown. See this post for the Java version to compare against. class RubyReversible def initia...

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See this post about why this code is being shown. See this post for the Java version to compare against. class ScalaWordSort(fileName:Stri...