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Programming Command-line Completion in Scala
20 February, 2010 at 10:29 PM

Experimenting with a pattern-matching technique for tab completion.

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Parsing Markdown in Scala
10 February, 2010 at 4:33 PM

Adventures in simple markup, via Scala.

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Loving Scala 2.8
5 February, 2010 at 9:22 AM

I've begun converting my Scala code to use Scala 2.8, and I have to say, it's great.

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Good Skeptical Podcasts
4 February, 2010 at 10:36 AM

Some skeptic-oriented podcasts I like.

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How Not to Design a Database
3 February, 2010 at 2:11 PM

A (very) brief description of a production database gone awry.

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Beginning Scala considered useful
17 August, 2009 at 2:07 PM

I picked up a copy of Beginning Scala a week ago, and I'm finding it to be a useful complement to Programming in Scala.

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C# is now a better language than Java
30 July, 2009 at 10:22 PM

I'm currently teaching myself C#. As a long-time Java programmer, I am finding that C# now beats the pants off Java, the language. This is a little depressing, frankly, but not all that surprising.

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SBT: A Scala-based Simple Build Tool
19 July, 2009 at 8:31 AM

Awhile ago, I embarked on an effort to build yet another build tool, this one in Scala. I shelved that effort, and I've switched to SBT, instead.

Read the entire article. Tags: scala, ant, rake, make, maven, ivy, gradle, SBT, programming
A spam poem
21 May, 2009 at 8:43 AM

A spam "poem", consisting entirely of subject lines from my junk email folder.

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Mac OS X, iTerm, bash key bindings, and muscle memory
16 May, 2009 at 11:17 AM

How to get iTerm, on Mac OS X, to map Command-F (not Option-F) to bash's "forward-word", and similar tricks.

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