I recently wrote about Event Sourcing and Free Monads. The natural next step is combining the two! How would a free monad adjusted for event sourcing look like? Please bear … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Languages
MacWire 2.0: composing modules & cleanup
Recently we released MacWire 2.0, with a number of new features and general code cleanup. The majority of the work was done by Bruno Bieth – thanks! If you don’t … Continue Reading →
When & why to use Supler for web forms?
If you haven’t yet heard about Supler, it’s a Rapid Form Development library, working with your favorite Javascript frontend and Scala backend frameworks. It keeps the form definition centralized, taking … Continue Reading →
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 … Continue Reading →
Supler 0.1.0: complex forms made easier
Supler aims to make complex web forms development easier, without tying you to a web framework. Supler provides a server-side DSL for defining forms, generating a JSON form representation, applying … Continue Reading →
Using Scala traits as modules, or the “Thin Cake” Pattern
I would like to describe a pure-Scala approach to modularity that we are successfully using in a couple of our Scala projects. But let’s start with how we do Dependency … Continue Reading →
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 … Continue Reading →
BuildStuff 2013 is over – looking forward to ’14!
I just came back from the BuildStuff conference in Vilnius, Lithuania (actually this was almost a week ago, but I was writing that back at the airport ;) ). Although … Continue Reading →
Automatic generation of delegate methods with Macro Annotations
Macro Annotations are a new type of macros, which are one of the candidates for inclusion (see also comment by Eugene below) in the upcoming Scala 2.11 release. However, thanks … Continue Reading →
Verifying usage of 3rd party libraries using Veripacks
Veripacks already allows to specify and verify which classes should be visible outside of a package (in a package-transitive way) as well as require importing and import packages within a … Continue Reading →