Jack Cough on Software

Here's the outline for my upcoming presentation on Scala and Testing. It's a bit ambitious, and I know I won't get through it al...

IntelliJ 8 now has support for ScalaTest (at least as of build 9805). I believe it comes in via the Scala plugin. It works, but, when I righ...

Quote from Gilad Bracha "Tangent: Yes, I did spend ten years at Sun. A lot of it was spent arguing that Java was not the final step in ...

I was working with the new ScalaTest matchers API recently when I came across something that made me think (I usually don't think). I ha...

I've written something that allows me to write my tests in ScalaTest as normal (don't have to use any TestNG annotations in my tests...

For some reason I feel compelled to chime in on this debate. I like both languages. I like Scala more, but Ruby is fun. (Reader Beware: This...

I haven't written in a while, but that doesn't mean that a lot hasn't been going on, just nothing I really felt the need to writ...

I plan on going back to grad school, full time maybe, part time maybe. I want to go for language design, as that's really all I'm in...

Monday, February 23rd, meeting of NYSE , or New York Scala Enthusiasts*. I suspect I'll be presenting regularly, but I won't be pres...

In Scala, there is a language feature generally referred to as "The Apply Method" that has the following rules: Any object that ha...

I'm on the train, trying to do a build, and this happens: [INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------------------...

I know I promised to explain some things that I still haven't explained, but unfortunately I won't be doing that just yet. I've ...

(Quick Note: If you just want to skip to the code, it's interspersed throughout the post. But, for your convenience, I've also put i...

WARNING: Today I changed this code all around, and I'll be reposting it soon. This post is still cool, and nothing is wrong with it, but...

As promised, here is where I'll be maintaining the things I like about Ruby better than Scala. In general, I do think I prefer programmi...

In this post, I'll be maintaining a list of things I like more about Scala, over Ruby. I am also maintaining a similar, opposite list - ...

For people that care (probably just myself, but I hold out hope), I'm going to spew out a list of the things I'm working on, posts t...

I'm going to write up a Scala version of foldLeft in the style of The Little Schemer . What is 0 + (1 + 2 + 3)? >6 What is 0 + (1 + 2...

I've been refactoring Scala literally for days. It's fantastic how much I've learned over the last year. I knew a little bit abo...

I'm still refactoring my Scala CPU Simulator code, as I keep finding ways to just lop off piles of unneeded code. In this latest example...