by Greg Turnquist | Jul 16, 2013 | jquery, mobile, play, scala
I just spent two days adding a mobile front end to a web app a few months ago. It is a reference app called Rabbit Trader, an app that demonstrates our JMS on Rabbit module targeted for vFabric 5.3. To hear more about that module, you’ll have to wait a bit. All...
by Greg Turnquist | Jul 12, 2012 | njug, play, scala, testing
This past Tuesday, we had James Ward, principal developer advocate for Heroku, give a presentation on the Play Framework, scala/java, and Heroku at the Nashville JUG. Suffice it to say, it was a really awesome presentation. This was far from a sales pitch, and more...
by Greg Turnquist | Apr 8, 2012 | eiul, finance, scala
Over the past couple of years, I have been innately fascinated by the emergence of scala. Discovering it’s incredible power of type inference, a very extensive collections API, pattern matching, and many other things have been very alluring.Recently, I had a...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 22, 2011 | hard, scala
I just read Stephen Colebourne’s blog entry that is circulating the twittersphere. I’m about to post some comments, so I guess this means that I don’t “tolerate dissent.”First of all, please don’t pull out the infamous “(0 /:...
by Greg Turnquist | Oct 20, 2011 | clojure, hard, scala
In this latest installment of Programming is hard, let’s talk about abstractions. (For previous readings, see Part 1 and Part 2). I read a column by Ted Neward where he points out how software development is unlike any other industry. We have to deal with...
by Greg Turnquist | Oct 12, 2011 | hard, scala
NOTE: You can also read Part 3 of this blog series. The debate about the complexity of scala ensues. As I previously wrote, programming is hard! Trying to conclude how easy or hard scala is based on language constructs isn’t feasible. In a really active thread...
