Groovy’s Smooth Operators

Take a trip back to 1984.  Apple release the Macintosh, ‘The Final Battle‘ is about to commence in V and Scotland…

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Grails: Applying build information to your builds

Occasionally, when I buy some food I check the label to see how unhealthy it is in an effort to…

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How could Scala do a merge sort?

Merge sort is a classical “divide and conquer” sorting algorithm. You should have to never write one because you’d be…

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Scala pattern matching: A Case for new thinking?

The 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln once said: ‘As our case is new we must think and…

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Scala: Collections 1

This post contains some info on Scala’s collections. Problem? We want a function that will take an List of Rugby…

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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…

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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…

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Scala function literals

Functions are an important part of the Scala language. Scala Functions can have a parameter list and can also have…

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Is Java Dead or Invincible?

Writer Isaac Asimov once said that ‘the only constant is change’. That isn’t just a phrase in the software industry,…

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