JVM Languages
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Finding Properties in JARs with Groovy
In previous blog posts I have looked at Searching JAR Files with Groovy to find entries (such as .class files)…
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Using Twitter4j with Scala to perform user actions
Introduction My previous post showed how to use Twitter4j in Scala to access Twitter streams. This post shows how to…
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Complex Numbers in Scala
Overview I recently delivered an introductory talk about Scala at an internal geek’s event at SAP. In this talk, I…
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Using twitter4j with Scala to access streaming tweets
Introduction My previous post provided a walk-through for using the Twitter streaming API from the command line, but tweets can…
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Groovy and HTTP
This article originally appeared in the December 2012 issue of GroovyMag. Some different ways that Groovy makes interacting with the…
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Scala pattern matching: A Case for new thinking?
The 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln once said: ‘As our case is new we must think and…
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Dry parameter names
How often do you see code like this, especially when using dependency injection, single-responsibility principle, and other “good practices”? …
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Scala: Collections 1
This post contains some info on Scala’s collections. Problem? We want a function that will take an List of Rugby…
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Structural (or) Type Safe Duck Typing in Scala
Structural typing as defined by Wikipedia “A structural type system (or property-based type system) is a major classof type system,…
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