Jack Cough on Software

  In this post I introduce Sweet, the fully complete test framework (even with IDE support) in only 99 lines of code. Sweet is compiled agai...

  Today I taught my 8 year old son Jacy how to read some simple programs. I've been taking my time in picking what to teach him next abo...

Back in February I wrote that it was time for me to go back to grad school . More or less, that time has come - I've decided to leave my...

  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...