Examples of currying, or partial application, are often simple enough to get the concept across, without suggesting real-world uses. This article describes a simple, practical currying example.

Wherein we try to establish a Scala enthusiasts' group in the Philadelphia area.

Publishing your project to a Maven repository, even a personal one, makes life easier for other users, especially if your artifact has dependencies. SBT makes publishing to a Maven repository an utterly trivial undertaking. In this article, I describe how to create your own Maven repository and configure your SBT project to publish to it.

Experimenting with a pattern-matching technique for tab completion.

Adventures in simple markup, via Scala.

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

Some skeptic-oriented podcasts I like.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Scala's REPL is useful, but if you're used to readline, you'll find it lacking and frustrating. Scala 2.8 is enhancing the REPL, but in the meantime, here's a handy trick.

I've been using Python in a large-scale, high-throughput, high-availability network application. The JVM seems easier to scale than CPython, at least for what we're doing.