Category Archives: Pet Project
Squealer: An Anti-ORM Influenced Scala Tool for Working with Relational DB
I was reading a blog post from Prismatic the other day and it got me thinking about how we, as programmers, have diverged so much from our roots. In the … Continue reading
Scala: Working with Predicates
I love me some Scala. Actually, since it’s now my day job, I love it all the time. It combines the short, expressiveness that I prized in Python with a … Continue reading
Touch and Drag in Android
It’s my pet project to learn the Android platform and begin writing apps in Scala on it. Once I get the legalities of my employment with respect to code I … Continue reading
Wubi, Eclipse, Android SDK and more
I’ve had a very busy weekend. I used Wubi to install Ubuntu on my machine at home, downloaded the PyDev add-on for Eclipse and configured my Android SDK download so … Continue reading
On Bottlenecks and Performance
It strikes me as odd just how many people love to prematurely optimize or optimize without benchmarking. Moreover, it’s unequivocally disastrous when the choice to optimize is made by non-programmers … Continue reading
