Praying in the Church of Silicon Valley

I got invited to participate in a pre-demo-day review of an Accelerator class. It seems that these days in the…

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My Priorities for Scala

What TypeSafe Should be Working On There was a Twitter thread that started off discussing Clojure REPL usage but devolved…

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We Are Failing to Even Have an Inclusive Discussion

The tech industry needs to be more inclusive of woman and people of color. It’s about having the largest pool…

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Java: a Local Minimum language-wise

I wrote hundreds of thousands of lines of code in Java between 1996 and 2002. I wrote web frameworks, spreadsheets,…

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Got my feet wet with Clojure

I started hardcode coding on Project Plugh. I’m working on moving a bunch of Lift concepts over to Clojure as…

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My thoughts on Agile

The seeds that you plant at the beginning of an organization’s life influences how the organization grows over time. I…

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Real World Scala Test

There was recently a study about Scala vs. Java where some of Scala’s productivity, conciseness, and multi-core abilities were put…

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Simple Security Rules

Wow! Citi really messed up their online security. They included account information as part of the URL. You could alter…

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Scala’s version fragility make the Enterprise argument near impossible

I have been working with Scala for more than five years. In those five years, I’ve seen Scala evolve and…

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