Who needs a Template Engine?

My wife commissioned me for another web app this weekend, and we spec'd it out using an app on her iPad (We both had a lot of fun). I wanted to prototype this sucker as quick as possible, and to be frank, my template engine I wrote for Scalatra wasn't cutting it. It dawned on me rather suddenly, something my former co-woker mentioned to me in passing.

"Scala supports in-line XML literals... Why not just go with that?"

And here I am almost a year later, saying to myself: Huh... you have an excellent point....

Remote Control v0.1 Alpha

The remote control package has finally reached an alpha stage today. The library includes ways for a server program to give client programs a way to change its behavior on the fly, or to run arbitrary code on command, and receive values from those arbitrary commands.

Dynamicism with Context Preservation

In my last post I talked about changing some code in real time. One of the problems with my current approach was the loss of the program context. If we are using my Scalabot example, this means that I can make no changes to ScalaBot from the dynamic portions, not dynamic calls, etc. I was limited to interacting with a constant data store. I have since tweaked my library which allows for context preservation, if context is important to the dynamic call.

Real-Time Solutions via ScalaBot

I was talking about a pseudo hot swapping solution in my last post. I briefly spoke of its potential, but at the time of its writing, I wasn't even sure it would solve problems. I decided a good way for me to find out if it was capable of solving those problems, would be to build something with it.

Scala Hot Swapping (Pseudo Hot Swap)

I wrote some library code recently, triggered by a post I read. The gist of the author's post was to compare Scala and Erlang. I actually agree with him. I want to bring your attention to where I come into this, Hot code swapping.

Nano Time is Here!

And you know what that means: an attempt to write another book! I've written up some thoughts on my characters, locations, and important what not's on Google Docs in anticipation.

DSL Magic

Updated: Work is being done for a cron dsl work on my project cronish. Check it out... fork me... I'm open to suggestions.

I have never taken a strong interest in creating DSL's before tinkering with Scala. I had an eye opening experience this weekend, that originated as a joke.

I've recently taken an interest in the Harry Potter series. Other Potter fans may also know that the next one in the series is coming out next month. On my birthday, in fact.