Quotes with Actors Part II

This is where we'll be getting to the good part. For those of you are just now joining, the part one of the this series can be found here. Today I'm going to be talking about how to make those communicating actors cross JVM, cross machine, cross platform. By changing a our code base a bit, and make use of the RemoteActors, we can achieve our goal.

Quotes with Actors Part I

Several months ago, I got serious with the Scala Actor library, and quickly fell in love. Very little data is required to thread together your application with actors, and make you feel like a rawk star ;) This is part one of a two part series covering some assets of the scala actor library. First, we'll be looking at how to incorporate actors in code, then how to make application communication with RemoteActors.

Factorial goofiness

It's Monday afternoon, and it's time for a silly post. Have you ever been browsing the Internet, looking at something completely code irrelevant, yet something struck you: "I bet I could do this in X language"? I saw a tshirt that said "factorial!", when something like that hit me.

Simplifying the JDBC

The title of this post may raise some brows, but I mean what I say. You see, I do a lot of little batch scripting with sqlite databases, and since Scala is my scripting language of choice (as of this writing), I interact with the JDBC API quite a bit. In my situation, it would be silly to import all the 3rd party libraries that make it simple (the big ones being Spring JDBC and Hibernate). Allow me to show you what I mean...

File utilities and the beauty of closures

Arg! I made the same mistake again. You know: the one where you made a bad svn commit, and there are those pesky .svn folders everywhere. Well, it happened to me twice in the same night, and I'm too lazy to delete them by hand. I decided a simple Scala script would do the trick.