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For almost 8 years i have ran this blog on my own blog engine, println. While at the beginning it gave me all i needed, in recent years my behavior has changed, and thus my preferences. I don’t like editing blog-posts in the browser…
So i learned Golang a few months back. Thanks to @normanmaurer and @MegOnWheels for the great suggestion! Not because i wanted to, but because Scala and the JVM started to suck after almost a decade. Why did the JVM start to suck?When i…
I like foursquare‘s libs. If you’re using liftweb a lot (and there is no reason you shouldn’t), then you’ve probably discovered the trove of treasures foursquare is managing in their repositories on GitHub. If you haven’t used Rogue,…
Today i just want to share a quick Scala goodie. We all know that i love Netty and Scala, so i wanted to write a little Goodie with Scala’s implicits. With Implicits we can wrap transparently around an Object (such as…
After reading this excellent Blogpost about the new Scala Try, i was thinking of how this would come in handy for “flow-control”, but without the StackTrace overhead. The ProblemFlowException(msg: String) extends Exception(msg)1val myE…
As promised on my last Talk in London, i’ve finally outdone myself with our newest piece of code called: The project aims to provide an extensible flow collector written in Scala, using Netty as IO Framework as well as Akka as Messaging…
Good evening everyone, so you thought i stopped blogging, but i didn’t. What i did do? Well, i wrote some amazing Scala stuff. Apart from my Liftweb, Netty and Akka Talk at SkillsMatter, London, i was busy coding some awesome stuff for…
A few days ago i had to use Cassandra for my special project, so i went on to search for usable clients. First i tried Cascal, which felt a bit clunky, so i decided to try Cassie (Twitter) which couldn’t create Keyspaces in code. So i…
First off, i’ve never thought of myself as a presenter. My dad always taught me things but i didn’t really listen, to my dismay i must add. Anyway, i think i’ve done quite okay in the past (since i got good feedback). But this fall, you…
For a few months now i’ve been doing some CSV Imports in my Liftweb projects. This mostly is because the old databases i am migrating to something normal (PostgreSQL or MongoDB) are badly designed (mostly MySQL) and therefore i don’t…