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View ArticleDaily Dose: Solr/Lucene Luminaries Launch First Certification for Open Source...
Solr/Lucene Luminaries Launch First Certification for Open Source SearchGroundWork Cloud Connector Added to GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.4Scala Lead Launches Typesafe Release the Mongrel, Mongrel2...
View ArticleCreator of the Scala Lift web framework comes to London for an exclusive...
David Pollak will spend 3 days in capital driven by the participants needs and real-world applications Location: London David Pollak -- the creator of the Lift web framework -- is coming to London on...
View ArticleI've had enough of running Scala in a terminal, let's try with a web application
I was checking out Scala as a new programming language to learn, and after remaining positively impressed I wanted to do more than making fake tests pass. Being a web developer by nature, I started...
View ArticleWeb applications with the Play framework
The Play framework defines itself as a clean alternative to bloated enterprise Java stacks. I like this definition and after having been advised to try it out, I set out some Pomodoros for coding a...
View ArticleMixins Simplify Composition in Scala
Scala has a nifty feature called “traits.” A trait is a means of encapsulating methods and fields that behaves in some ways like an interface, and in other ways like an abstract class. Like an...
View Article15 Different Statsd Server Implementations
Statsd is a simple client/server mechanism from the folks at Etsy that allows operations and development teams to easily feed a variety of metrics into a Graphite system. For more info on statsd read...
View ArticleNon Blocking Composition Using Redis and Futures
scala-redis now supports pooling of Redis clients. Using RedisClientPool you can do some cool stuff in non blocking mode and get an improved throughput for your application. Suppose you have a bunch of...
View ArticlePolyglot Programming on the Web
Whether you like it or not, the web platform has become the dominant client-side technology. This fact is so obvious that even Microsoft and Adobe have abandoned their solutions in favour of the web....
View ArticleWeekly Poll: Scala, Friend or Foe? What's DZone's Consensus?
There's been some interesting news in the last week about Scala, and we thought the community would be curious to find out just how many of us have used Scala, and how many of us like or dislike the...
View ArticleScala vs. Clojure as Cathedral Images
Scala: Adorned Overflowing Magnificent Clojure: Clean Structured Focused Preview Text: Clojure has a zen-like quality to it. There is extreme focus on simplicity, on defining few elementary...
View ArticleBenchmarking Scala Against Java
A question recently came up at work about benchmarks between Java and Scala. Maybe you came across my blog post because you too are wanting to know which is faster, Java or Scala. Well I'm sorry to...
View ArticleScaling Scala vs. Java
In my previous post I showed how it makes no sense to benchmark Scala against Java, and concluded by saying that when it comes to performance, the question you should be asking is "How will Scala help...
View ArticleDevoxx 2012 – Day 4
Unitils: full stack testing solution for enterprise applications by Thomas de Rycke and Jeroen Horemans There are of course, several different types of tests: unit tests (testing in isolation),...
View ArticleDZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/15/13)
An Amazing New Java Library! There's a fun 'aha!' moment halfway through this Graham Lea article. Are You A Lone Wolf Coder? This is actually a 'women in programming' focused article that looks at how...
View ArticleJoin New Relic at Scala Days
Preview Text: Are you going to the Scala Days conference next week? New Relic is! In case you haven’t been there before, Scala Days is the annual gathering where developers who work with Scala and...
View ArticleDZone Weekly Link Roundup (August 11)
NEWS New Coursera.org Class on Recommendation Systems Preview Text: Learn about the new utilities for Dropbox and SkyDrive. Then you'll have to see if you fall in love with Angular and Python 3.4....
View ArticleThe HuffPost Moves to MongoDB, Scala, Play and Angular
Big news from probably one of the biggest news sites out there. The Huffington Post is abandoning its PHP/MySQL stack in favor of newer technologies. One of them was MongoDB. Here's what the author...
View ArticleHipster Scala Features
I’m a big fan of Scala, but there are some features I try to steer clear of like covariant or contravariant generics, or excessive use of operator overloading to construct nifty DSLs which look as if a...
View ArticleThis year in Scala (2013)
In place of the traditional This week in Scala, I give you This year in Scala. It is my take on what has happened in the Scala and the wider JVM world, and I will even throw in some of my “predictions”...
View ArticleDev of the Week: Rafael Winterhalter
Every week here and in our newsletter, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community to catch up and find out what he or she is working on now and what's coming next. This week we're...
View ArticleHow Java 8 handles JavaScript - A look inside The New Nashorn compiler
Preview Text: Java 8 not only introduces improvements to the javac compiler, it also introduces a new one- -Nashorn. This new engine is meant to replace Java’s existing JavaScript interpreter Rhino...
View ArticleDZone Weekly Link Roundup (Feb. 19)
NEWS The (Un)Official Sochi Olympics RESTful API The Sochi Winter Olympics are the most expensive olympics in history, costing $50 billion. 151 million U.S. viewers have already tuned in. Despite the...
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