The first Scala feature I blogged about is Literal data structures. Read it at Lunatech.
Posts by Bart Schuller
Scala Advocacy
I am trying to get my fellow (Java) programmers to use Scala. The case, in a nutshell, is this: Scala is very Java compatible, which means you don’t have to give up anything. Scala has lots of big and little features that together make you more productive. Even a small productivity gain is worth making [...]
WordPress installation permissions
I too got bitten by a question for my Connection Information when I just wanted to upgrade a plugin on my standard Ubuntu WordPress installation. Googling showed lots of people recommending to just chown or chmod everything writable for the webserver user (or even the whole world). It turns out there’s an easier way. If [...]
Explosion of activity
Whether it’s also an explosion of productivity remains to be seen, but one thing is unmistakable: I am a lot more active than I have been the last year. Things I’m doing at the moment: Writing an issue tracker using Grails Using and exploring git Exploring jQuery UI, writing a simple grails plugin for it [...]
Got it just before it was pulled…
…thereby preserving the exclusive nature of the app.
Unlocking my Mac’s full potential with VirtualBox
The 1.6.0 release of VirtualBox looks like a winner. It ran an old Windows install that I had lying around in VMWare format and it does the insane seamless trick which makes the windows in your virtual machine appear as normal windows. This could be the application that my multi-core machine has been waiting for. [...]
New hobby programming project
I have taken an interest in git and would like to use it for work. But work means java and eclipse and convincing colleagues of the advantages in the face of some disadvantages. One of the current disadvantages is the lack of a finished Eclipse plugin for git. I have played with egit and like [...]
Not all computer problems are software problems
For the last week the quality of my computing experience was severely degraded. My scroll wheel stopped scrolling. The mouse was working perfectly fine otherwise, including the button in the scroll wheel. Naturally, I blamed software. I went through the “Keyboard and Mouse” settings multiple times. I tried installing the Logitech Control Center even though [...]
Booleans and tests
There’s a subject for a post in my head that I haven’t yet written. And today I found out that Chris Okasaki has written it better than I could have: Boolean Confusion.
Drinking Bird
I’m very happy with it, you can look at it for hours.
