Jack Cough on Software

Maybe this feature exists in some language, I'm not sure. My inexperience is letting me down. :( Here is what I want, as demonstrated in...

I'm assuming (maybe incorrectly) that most of the Actors that will be written will simply want to react to messages, forever. Something ...

Scala doesn't have language level support for enumerations, but I think its fairly easy to argue that its a good thing. First, something...

I've it said before (and people a lot smarter than me like Gilad Bracha), and I'll say it again: Constructors are Evil. Unfortunatel...

I gave my first talk on Scala today, to my team at NYSE. It was an entirely informal, BYOL (Bring your own lunch) talk that I hadn't pre...

THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE DRAFT, POSTED FOR REVIEW. I UNDERSTAND SOME SECTIONS NEED WORK AND SOME SECTIONS ARE EMPTY OR MISSING ENTIRELY, AND TH...

I've added in some mocking into ScalaTest thanks to specs integration. I've done it in a BDD style, kind of like rspec's given/...

I've been writing ScalaTest tests for the ScalaTest TestNG integration (say that five times fast). I used a couple of different styles a...

I wrote before on running TestNG in Scala and due to popular demand I'm going to go into much greater detail. My goal is to show that ru...

Something seems wrong to with the whole send/! idea. The Scala guys say ! apparently means "send", but it really means "add m...

I recently realized that I could make a piece of code I posted in a recent blog much cleaner using foldLeft. I have a bit of a problem howev...

I've heard a lot of people bickering about Java Closures. One of the many reasons they are fighting with each other is that in the BGGA ...

Because Scala lets you name methods pretty much whatever you want, I got the chain wires together like this: @Test def lastPowerSourceInCh...

Here is a very, very simple example of some TestNG stuff that I wrote the other day in Scala (it can also be found here ): package com.joshc...

After working a bunch in Scala the other day, and continuing to obsess over it, I've realized something. Reading the code Scala language...

I reviewed a few Scala unit testing frameworks today: SCUnit , and Rehersal . When all was said and done I determined something that I found...

I did a ton of reading on Scala today, and I did a lot of writing code and using Scala today. This makes me really happy. The best idea th...

Let's revisit reading code and bring in some extra twists. (Hint: Debuggers are WRONG) First, I know for a fact that I've read a lo...

No one might actually contribute, except myself, but I put my CPU Simulator project up on http://code.google.com/p/cpusimulator . This wasn...

I haven't written and songs in a while. Way too long. Like, maybe a year. Terrible. It dawned on me just now (though I'm sure I knew...