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Scala: call me by my name please?
In Java, when frameworks such as log4J became popular in Java architectures it was a common occurence to see code such as: if ...
Scala: Do you partially understand this?
Nearly everyone who learns Scala can get confused over the word partial used in the contexts:Partial functions Partially applied functionsLet’s look at both. Partially applied ...
Scala function literals
Functions are an important part of the Scala language. Scala Functions can have a parameter list and can also have a return type. So the first confusing thing is what’s the difference ...
FactoryPal: New Scala framework for creating objects as test data
FactoryPal is a scala framework that lets you create objects as test data. All you have to do is define the templates for each of the classes that you want FactoryPal to create objects ...
Introducing Spring Scala project
The Spring Scala project was first revealed to the world last October at SpringOne2GX. SpringSource now has revealed more information about it as well as how it can be used in Scala ...
Starting with Scala Macros: a short tutorial
Using some time during the weekend, I decided to finally explore one the new features in the coming Scala 2.10, macros. Macros are also written in Scala so in essence a macro is a ...
Parallelization of a simple use case explained
Some time ago a friend of mine asked me about the possibilities of speeding up the following process: they are generating some data in two stages, reading from a database and processing ...
Scaling 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 ...
Non-blocking I/O – discovering Akka
Here comes the time to follow some good practices when implementing actors. One of the most important rules we should follow is avoiding any blocking input/output operations, polling, ...
Two actors – discovering Akka
Hope you are having fun so far, but our application has serious performance defect. After measuring response times of the RandomOrgRandom class we developed in the previous part we ...
