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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleScala 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...
View ArticleMillion 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...
View ArticleExpandoMetaClass 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...
View ArticleCache 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:...
View ArticleWait! 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...
View ArticleFunction 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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