Type All The Things!
Scala is statically typed. Yet we rarely use it to our advantage. For example let’s say you have a function with the signature: def convert(a: Double, b: Double): String Of course, the author hasn’t written a comment, and …
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Web 2.0
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Handling Avro records in Scalding
In this post I’ll try to cover how to write and read Avro records in Scalding pipelines. To begin, a reminder that Avro is a serialization format, and Scalding is a scala API on top of Hadoop. If …
Scala Days 2015 Recap
I was very fortunate to attend Scala Days 2015 in San Francisco this week. It was incredible to talk to the people behind the language, and to get a glimpse of a wide ecosystem. I wanted to post …
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Launching Robolectric tests from Android Studio 1.0
I recently upgraded my Android toolchain to the official Android Studio 1.0. I’ve set up a new project, and as with any Android app, included Robolectric to allow for easy unit testing. I was able to configure Gradle …
Reactive Android, Part 3
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series we examined different methods of creating a reactive application on Android, where events (either UI events originating from the application user, or background events generated by the system) trigger certain …