Why learn another editor in the first place? The main role of a good editor is to not get into your way while working, and maybe even help a bit from time to time. If you are a programmer, chances are you are spending a large amount of time using…
Category: different
In today’s post-OO world, is dependency injection still relevant?
It’s 2015. Most of the new popular languages are more or less functional. The old ones, like Java, gain functional programming elements. In Scala, people are increasingly leaning towards the pure side, using more FP and less OO. So – Dependency Injection? Really? You could say that DI is just…
Inverse beacon positioning
Indoor positioning is a very popular topic recently, mostly due to the iBeacon technology promoted by Apple, and adopted by other vendors. Most of the research on indoor location involves a set of fixed beacons on well-known positions, and a moving beacon signal receiver. What if the beacon was moving,…
Makerland, hackaton and turtles
The first Makerland is over – if you read only the first sentence of this blog, the conference was great, watch out for the second edition (hopefully there will be one)! What is Makerland? A hardware conference for non-specialists (not only developers, though they were the majority) – think Arduinos,…
How do iBeacons work?
iBeacons are certainly a trending topic recently. They allow indoor positioning, letting your phone know that you are in range of a beacon. This can have many applications: from helping you to find your car in a parking garage, through coupons and location-aware special offers in retail, to a whole…
Traffic simulation game in Elm
A couple of weeks ago I read about Elm, a new functional language, which compiles to JavaScript and HTML. Elm is designed with the browser in mind, most notably by implementing Functional Reactive Programming (FRP). The syntax of Elm is Haskell-like, has only a few basic constructs and is very…
Connecting a piano pedal to a computer
It’s good to do something different once in a while. In my case, “different” still means things involving a computer – but far from the Java&Scala programming that I do daily. As SoftwareMill is a fully distributed company, communication is very important. We use Skype a lot, but since a while…