Talks Rich Hickey on Are We There Yet? How to think about immutability and time. Presents some solutions with these restrictions in mind. Time-varying data. Alan Kay on Graphical User Interfaces History of graphical user interfaces. Explore and discover new paradigms. Bret Victor on Inventing on Principle Identify restrictions held by convention. Prefer visual representations… Continue reading A few talks and lectures
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Example usage of sbt build system
The sbt build system This is a writeup explaining basic usage of the Simple Build Tool system for Scala. The complete build system is fairly comprehensive so I will only be focusing on aspects like setting up the project and using basic commands. A nice property of the build tool is its support for continuous… Continue reading Example usage of sbt build system
A compact UI layout for tag-based search
I’ve always been impressed by tags as a way to do search and have been looking to make use of them myself. In my application my initial design for categorizing items was based on the familiar directory-structure, but this presented several problems in relation to search. I needed a more efficient way of locating items… Continue reading A compact UI layout for tag-based search
A small benchmark util for Scala continued
Extending the benchmark Note: This is a follow-up post of a previous post. You might want to read the first to get a simpler view of the extensions added here. One improvement I wanted to add to the previous benchmark util was monitors which generate statistics for the task being benchmarked. I chose traits for… Continue reading A small benchmark util for Scala continued
A small benchmark util for Scala
Specifying the benchmark Note: there’s now also a follow-up post which extends this benchmark. This post was inspired by an answer to the Hidden features of Scala question over at StackOverflow.com (and also another blog post I cannot find back to). I expanded a little on the code that was posted, which resulted in the… Continue reading A small benchmark util for Scala