Jack Cough on Software

  At a recent NYC Scala meetup, I got chatted up and basically was asked the following: I know you've been writing multi-threaded testin...

  Recently I did a (somewhat brute force) port of MultithreadedTC . All of this work stems directly from it, and I deserve basically no cred...

  I assume most people familiar with Scala are familiar with Pimp My Library . It's just a fun and useful thing to be able to add a miss...

I haven't posted in quite a while now, but only because I've been working really hard. I asked Doug Lea if I could help him on his u...

  Please submit your favorite (or least favorite) language! Added: Java, Clojure, JavaScript Scala this.computers = Array( Map("Name...

  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...