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Use def as owner with threadsafe delegate in it

Dustin Marx gives a brief overview of the special or quasi-reserved words that Groovy adds to Java's. Use def as owner with threadsafe delegate in it © 2011 by David Byron, the author of Intermediate...

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The Lion lies down with the Lambda

Neal Ford's series (One, Two, Three, Four, Five) continues to put the "fun" in functionalism. His part six, Functional thinking: Coupling and composition, Part 2, is a sequel to the subseries started...

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Scala to Java in a million easy steps

From the Dose of Reality Department, here's a detailed explanation, apparently from Yammer, of why Yammer is dumping Scala and embracing Java. "Dumping" is too harsh. They'll still stay friends and...

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Million Steps Revisited

Following up on yesterday's news/leak/kerfuffle, Coda Hale offers Yammer's official position on Scala: http://eng.yammer.com/blog/2011/11/30/scala-at-yammer.html Million Steps Revisited © 2011 by David...

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ExpandoMetaClass is now in session

In part 1 of his mini-sub-series on functional features of Groovy, Neal Ford explored functional features of Groovy. Now he continues with Functional thinking: Functional features in Groovy, Part 2, an...

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Cache as cache can

Neal Ford is at it again with part 3 of his Groovy subseries, which is but a part of his broader super-series on functional programming: Functional thinking: Functional features in Groovy, Part 3:...

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Wait! I thought design patterns were meta-boilerplate to a functionalist…

Neal Ford continues his series, Functional Eye for the Imperative Guy, with a multiparter on Design Patterns: Functional thinking: Functional design patterns, Part 1: How patterns manifest in the...

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Function Function, what's that Function

Neal Ford, man. He puts the ion in recursion. Continuing to the 3rd piece on design patterns, here's Functional thinking: Functional design patterns, Part 3: The Interpreter pattern and extending the...

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