Hello again! Today I’d like to show a nice little trick you can do in Scala to make your methods look more “like Scala”, and require less typing :-) Let’s take a look at the two methods bellow: // before: val cookie = unmarshall(classOf[Cookie], jsonRepresentingACookie) // which is the same as the bellow sample [...]
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manifest,
marshalling,
scala,
tips,
tricks
Remember the ol’ days with Maven where you had to create a project for just about anything if you wanted to keep your depencencies clean and separated? We’ve encountered such a problem with a current project, and started to tackle it “the maven way”. It wasn’t too long that we’ve realized that we’re in scala [...]
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#maven,
compile,
dependencies,
project management,
sbt,
scala
I’ve finished a one could say major stepstone in my student project yesterday. I’ll be implementing this tool to be production ready over the next few months so keep your fingers crossed. But what is it actually? ProtoDoc, is for Google Protocol Buffers what JavaDoc is for Java. As simple as that. In order to [...]
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alpha,
free software,
github,
open source,
protocol buffers,
release,
scala
This Saturday we’ve (the Software Craftsmanship in Cracow guys) organized a Code Retreat, right after AgileCE. We’ve invited Corey Haines to join us and facilitate this meetup, and later on even Alexandru Bolboaca AND Maria Diaconu joined us in facilitating the event and so it got even better :-) Before we start, just a quick reminder [...]
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clean code,
clojure,
coderetreat,
coding,
java,
meeting,
objective-c,
python,
review,
ruby,
scala,
TDD
After I came back to Poland this week I had an bazillion of things to do… Now it’s just getting even more but I’ll try survive this. One additional time-taker this week was this years Java Developers’ Day. In fact, it should have been renamed and I’m very wondered that it wasn’t to: “Java Developer [...]
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coding,
conference,
java,
jdd,
jee,
meeting,
review,
scala
Yup, last Saturday we’ve had yet another JavaCamp in Cracow. It was in my opinion the best yet – mostly due to our awesome speakers. One could call this “JavaCamp” an “ScalaCamp” if you think about it – as most of the topics (3/4) where mostly about scala (AKKA is avaiable as both Java and [...]
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akka,
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java,
JavaCamp,
JUG,
meeting,
osgi,
parallelism,
pjug,
polishjug,
review,
scala
So the long awaited GeeCON 2010 has come to an end yesterday. Of course I was there, and had quite an amazing time there yet again. Here’s, as usually, a small review/roundup of al the three days GeeCON lasted. It’s been really fun, as I was not only attending all the sessions but hanging around [...]
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gpars,
groovy,
java,
jpa,
JUG,
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polishjug,
scala,
spring