FrankenQueries: When SQL and NoSQL Collide
It seems like some NoSQL vendors have been moving back towards SQL-like interfaces, which is just what this writer has a problem with. He... more »
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Gatling - An effective, Akka and Scala based hi-perf stress tool, a JMeter alternative
Gatling is a stress tool. Development is currently focusing on HTTP support. Motivation: Fed up with fancy GUI that generate huge... more »
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Mixing R, Python, and Perl in 14 Lines of Code
John Cook continues his post "Running Python and R inside Emacs" in which he explained how to execute independent code blocks in Emacs... more »
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Groovy 1.8.6 released
The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.8.6. Groovy 1.8.6 is a maintenance release essentially,... more »
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Scala Artifacts Now on Central
Two weeks ago, all Scala projects required a little bit of extra configuration to point to a custom repository for Scala artifacts hosted... more »
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Go vs C benchmark. Could Go be faster than C?
During last semester I was attending Multiprocessor Architectures course, given at Facultad de Informática where I study my Computer Science degree.
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Cross-platform Windows and Mac lifts Delphi sales by 54%
Embarcadero has announced 54% growth in sales of Delphi and C++ Builder, its rapid application development tools, in 2011 vs 2010. These... more »
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Programming Language Popularity by SO and GitHub Cross-Ranking
See what you think of this new methodology for determining language popularity with stats from Stack Overflow, the developer question and... more »
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Effective Scala - A collection of Scala best practices from Twitter
This is not an introduction to Scala; we assume the reader is familiar with the language. This is a living document that will change to... more »
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Some SQL injection in Android - How to use GROUP BY and CASE when you are not allowed to do so
I suppose you’re all familiar with the “academic” examples of SQL injection when you put a AND 1=1 at the end of the SQL query and... more »
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Lua vs. Javascript: Why Wikipedia engineers selected Lua instead of JavaScript for scripting MediaWiki
I agree that server-side JS would be ideal from a user perspective, which is why I've researched the various compiler/interpreter options... more »
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Introducing SocketRocket: A WebSocket library for Objective-C
The WebSocket Protocol is a network protocol designed for the web to enable browsers to have bi-directional communication with a... more »
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From C# to C++, the short guide that isn't (all that short)
This is a big post – over 12200 words – and so I’ve decided to make it available as a PDF download, which you can get... more »
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Scala Cake pattern in the Spring Framework
Shows how to use the Scala Cake pattern to compose functionality in a Spring Framework-based application
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Drools Developer's Cookbook review
Wumpus world continues to improve and is now fully playable. The UI has a lot more polish now and nearly all of the code has been moved... more »
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35+ Best jQuery Social sharing tutorials with Demos
In this Article we are providing best jQuery social bookmark tutorials and jQuery bookmarking plugins.Due to growing popularity of social... more »
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Sindi - An IoC Container for Scala
Sindi is lightweight IoC container for the Scala programming language. A new version was just released and a website is available with... more »
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video/presentation - Running Scala in the Browser: cross-compile the Scala programming language to JavaScript
A proof of concept for cross compiling Scala to JavaScript http://www.j2js.com/scala-demo/index.html
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Scala is not ASCII art
A review of the aftermath of the ASCII art Scala Christmas tree program. Explains that Scala is not ASCII art, that it is not overly... more »
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Kick-start Your F# WPF Apps
Many WPF project templates are available in the Visual Studio Gallery, but most of the sample apps require more files than you may need... more »
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Servo: A Vision for the Future of Firefox
Recently, Mozilla stopped the Electrolysis project that was to give Firefox per-tab processes. Hence, I was relieved when David Bruant... more »
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Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template LanguagE
In an attempt to tackle the inefficient complexity of its current template system, Wikipedia will be adopting the Lua scripting language.... more »
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MoonScript: A Lua-Based Language
There are literally hundreds of programming languages, most of which are historical curiosities, research tools or personal projects. You... more »
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And, Why Didn't Dijkstra Like Lisp?
Two recent posts on this blog ([1], [2]) discussed Dijkstra's relation toward another Turing Award winner, John McCarthy, and his... more »
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In-memory Cache: Implementation in C#
There are several ways to achieve in-memory cache implementations using multiple design patterns. But if we were to implement those... more »
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