Tag Archives: scala

99 Scala Problems #28 – I Like My Solution Better

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been working through this list of 99 Scala Problems, which is modeled after this list of 99 Prolog Problems. As I’ve been going through them, I have been comparing my solutions to those provided (obviously). Sometimes, my solution is … Continue reading →

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Procedural vs. Functional

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Joey Gibson

With the rise of Scala and Clojure, there’s been a lot of talk lately about procedural vs. functional styles of coding. Most developers are accustomed to procedural coding, and functional can be hard to get a handle on. I was … Continue reading →

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Unmotivated

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Joey Gibson

As you can probably tell, I haven’t been motivated to write anything in well over a month. I don’t know why, but that’s what’s happened. I didn’t finish my Lenten project, though I am still occasionally working on it. I … Continue reading →

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Slides From My Presentation on Operator Overloading In Scala

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Joey Gibson

Last night I spoke at the Atlanta Scala Enthusiats meeting about operator overloading and a little on implicit conversions. I think the talk went well as I got lots of really good questions from the audience, and they laughed at … Continue reading →

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What the Heck Is a Tuple, Anyway?

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Joey Gibson

Yesterday I was talking with a friend about Scala and the subject of tuples came up. We both had a bit of a laugh that neither of us was sure how to pronounce it, though we both leaned toward TUH-ple … Continue reading →

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2 Solutions To Project Euler Problem #1

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Joey Gibson

In an effort to not go a whole month without blogging, and in the interest of posting some code samples, I give you two solutions to Project Euler: Problem #1. If you’ve never heard of it, Project Euler (pronounced “oiler” … Continue reading →

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I’m Liking Scala’s XML Literals

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Joey Gibson

How many times have you written a class that you needed to save and restore to/from XML? How did you do it? There are libraries that will do this for you, but I don’t know if any of them have … Continue reading →

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Scala’s Nice Regex Class

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Joey Gibson

I’m a big fan of regular expressions, because they let you parse text in very concise, and sometimes complicated, ways. Though I agree with jwz about regular expressions in lots of cases, I still use them frequently. Perl was the … Continue reading →

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Scala Gets Operator Overloading Right

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Joey Gibson

02/20/2010 Update: I took this blog post and turned it into a presentation to the Atlanta Scala User Group, which I gave in January 2010. The slides from that presentation are here. 05/31/2009 Update: As Mads Andersen pointed out, in … Continue reading →

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