Jack Cough on Software

  I found what I consider a really great use case for using keyword arguments. I'm sure there are tons of them, I just want to list this...

  I constantly go back and tinker with my old Scala code, especially in my CPU Simulator project. When I'm in the old code I notice some...

Everything here is mostly intuitive, but I'm putting it here for personal reference. Should be helpful to a lot of people though. There...

I started teaching some of the basic concepts of functional programming to my 8 year old son yesterday, and wanted to write a little about i...

Another really long post, but why not! My Lexer is now approaching 500 lines with roughly 350 lines of test code. Maybe that's still tri...

I've maintained posts about things I like in better about Scala and/or Ruby, but, it's time to put an end to the debate. I've be...

This is a really long post, but IM(not so)HO, its really fun! Sunday I decided, "I'm going to write my own Lexer for Scala", s...

I'm reading chapter 10 of Lambda-Calculus and Combinators by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin, and I wanted to put down some not...

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 ...