Archives for programming

Conciseness

The first Scala feature I blogged about is Literal data structures. Read it at Lunatech.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.