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Wicket: Resourceful caching
One of the strengths of the Wicket framework is that while it enables sky-high feats of abstraction on the trapeze of application state, a tire swing... more »
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Types and Programming Languages
I've been reading Pierce's Types and Programming Languages. I've become interested in the interactions between Parametric Polymorphism and runtime... more »
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Everyday monads
Abstraction is the bread and butter of our trade, right? The problem is that when you abstract too much, you don't always know where you came from and... more »
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Databinder 1.2 Unleashed
The Databinder community has unleashed 1.2 for our pleasure. With databinder you can build database backed applications without having to resort to... more »
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Emailing and Texting with Scala & lift
This blog post will walk you through the process of configuring and using lift's Mailer, a utility for sending email from your web application. By the... more »
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Just what the funk is a Functor anyway?
Runar recently made mention of these so-called Functors and Monads in his excellent post about concurrency/actors in Java. There are all sorts of... more »
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You’d naturally write flatMap yourself if asked the question
Many people struggle to understand those fluffy things called Monads and why they are important. I’m not going to attempt to alleviate this to a large... more »
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Parsing JavaScript with Factor
I've made some more changes to the Parsing Expression Grammar library in Factor. Most of the changes were inspired by things that OMeta can do. The... more »
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Applicative Functors in Scala
The Applicative Functor pattern is an incredibly powerful abstraction. I recently added it to a branch of Scalaz. However, it would be nice if I could... more »
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Do Java 6 threading optimizations actually work?
Much attention has been given by Sun, IBM, BEA and others to optimize lock management and synchronization in their respective Java 6 virtual machine... more »
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Not going dark
Rubyforge is now hosting an “initial pre-release of a preview of an alpha of an undocumented proof-of-concept” of the rewrite gem. Rewrite restricts... more »
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Tests as Documentation
When disciplined programmers write unit tests, they often make reference to the fact that their tests provide a means of documentation the software... more »
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Announcing: Proxy-o-Matic
Proxy-o-Matic lets you create dynamic proxies fast and in an homogeneous way. Basically it lets you create proxies from Maps, Expandos and Closures... more »
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Java, Groovy & Scala: side to side 2
Second part of the series, (first part here). Thanks a lot to Daniel Spiewak who took the time to expand the topics presented about Scala. Without... more »
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Edit distance in Scala
I was just looking for a way to highlight differences between 2 strings for my Behavior-Driven Development library, specs. And reading the excellent... more »
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A Case for Automated Testing
Disciplined programmers write tests while developing code. Some even refactor their tests when certain situations arise. Imagine this one. You have... more »
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Creating a simple AIR/Flex UI for a Snobol program
This post presents a little experiment for communicating an Snobol program with an AIR/Flex interface using HTTP. This post is inspired by the Put a... more »
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JVM Compiler Construction with Scala and BCEL, Part 1
Writing a compiler is no simple undertaking. I’ve spent a few years on and off (mostly with the Python source code) trying to understand compiler... more »
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Functors in Scala
Following on my earlier entry on modules in Scala, I'll give an encoding of Standard ML style functors here. You can get a pretty close approximation... more »
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SML Style Modules in Scala
I just saw a thread on Lambda the Ultimate where I think the expressive power of Scala in comparison to Standard ML's module system was... more »
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Are Machine-Learned Models Prone to Catastrophic Errors?
A couple of days ago I had coffee with Peter Norvig. I've always been a great admirer of Peter and have kept in touch with him through his short stint... more »
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Reductio: Testing for the Top Java Programmers
Reductio is open source (BSD) software that provides some very clever ideas adapted from QuickCheck. In particular, Reductio allows you to write... more »
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An alternative approach to layouts
Here’s a quick sketch of a way to implement layouts without (requiring) layout managers. This idea occurred to me because I’m doubtful now about a... more »
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Sexy Swing App - The Unified Toolbar
The unified toolbar was introduced in Tiger, and provides a distinctive look to Mac applications. Apps written for the Mac that don’t incorporate this... more »
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The Narcissism of Small Code Differences
A pithy commentary on the many wars we start over the "one true way" of solving trivial problems.
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