Async File IO with Akka and Java 7
Akka provides tons of nice facilities to deal with concurrent and asynchronous operations. However at the edges it often gets rougher when you deal with the non Akka world. For…
Read more’Decompiling’ Scala
Somehow I often end up in a situation where I need to take a look at what the Scala compiler generates, mainly at the class-signature of the generated stuff. So…
Read moreModify Annotations in Scala
In Scala I rarely use annotations. However when you need to interoperate with a framework which relies on annotations you need use them. So lately I wanted to store some…
Read moreScalaQuery, a Small Database Library
On this blog I usually talk about no relational databases, like RavenDB or db4o. But guess what, I still like regular relational databases. A while back I needed to read…
Read moreAnnoying Void in C# / Java / alike
One thing which regularly annoys me in C# and Java is the void type. Basically the void type is not a subtype of object, which makes it giant. Now when…
Read moreRunning Scala on Android
For my little pet project Akka-Mobile I need to run Scala on Android. In theory this is dead simple. However in practice there are some issues. When you simply add…
Read moreApproval Testing
Approval Testing is one of my newest discoveries. It is amazingly helpful and I wonder why it’s not more known and used. Image that you have a complex functionality which…
Read moreVisualVM
VisualVM is an awesome tool! It is one of the best tools shipped with the JDK. I’m always astonished when people do know nothing about it. Here’s a short tour…
Read moreTalks and Stuff: Carmack Keynote, Approval Tests, Pausless GC, History
Hmm, I ‘m not in the mood for writing anything technical right know. Instead I just share some interesting links to talks, blog-posts and podcasts. Here we go: QuakeCon 2011…
Read moreScala on LLVM
For this semesters ‘Program Analysis and Transformation’ seminar I took a look on how you could potentially run Scala on the LLVM. I created an overview the motivation, implementation possibilities…
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