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It is Wednesday 13th April 2011 and I am here at the ACCU 2011 Conference again in Oxford, England. It is great to back. The last time I was in Oxford for ACCU 2008, I gave a talk on JavaFX 1.1. This morning, I presented An Introduction to Scala: The Object Functional Programming Language. The […]

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Hey All I will giving a presentation at ACCU 2011 Conference in Oxford on 13th April: Introduction to Scala. The conference takes place in Oxford at the Barceló Hotel on the outskirts of the town. Registration is still open last time I check, so if you want to go then do it now. I examined […]

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Well after a night’s sleep and a good rest, which always sorts out the best engineers among us, I realised that the issue is my lack of brain cells on Scala’s Uniform Access Principle. If you noticed in yesterday’s program, the editor panes were created like this:- So I am sorry to say, there is […]

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  I just spent the best part of two hours attempting figure out an interactive REPL for Scala, a la the Groovy Console, but a very basic version. My progress has not been lightning fast. Why? I really do not understand why this code is not working at all. It is a Swing application to […]

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After the my usual downbeats posts on Beyond Java on the JVM, I stumbled across Charles Nutter’s blog article [The Future Part One] again and reread it. The date on this article states April 2009 predates my own thinking on the Java platform, at that time, I was more interested in JavaFX Script version 1.1. […]

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After a very busy QConLondon 2011 this week, I almost forgot to mention that the lightning talks from JavaPosse Roundup were announced. I did to two lightning talks of five minutes long on Tuesday and Wednesday nights over in Crested Butte, Colorado. Gosh! It seems like a decade ago or a distance life already. I […]

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Here is screencast of a web presentation. It is called The Fundamental Business Case for Scala. I admit this was long overdue by three weeks or so. JavaPosse RoundUp and a new Bathroom installation were in my way and therefore my time was severly crunched.  This talk is aimed at non-technical staff in the organisation, […]

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Hello Everyone Here is a Scala application example that demonstrate how to reverse a singularly linked list.   The example program above demonstrates the following salient points: Scala’s syntax for use of case instance classes that reduce the boiler plate and add syntax sugar to ordinary object classes. (LinkedNode) One can declare case object class […]

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  Akka: Simpler Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting Through Actors by Viktor Klang You know that I came across the name always, Viktor Klang, but I think always the Java Posse mailing list / Google forum along with Casper Bang. So here was the man in person and I had no idea before this […]

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  Dive into Android with Chet Haze and Romain Guy https://devoxx.com/display/Devoxx2K10/Dive+into+Android For yours truly, this was useful interesting introduction in Android, another mobile computing platform. Romain Guy and Chet Haase talk about Android in higher level at the beginning, then they descending to into the key aspect of the platform: the Activities, the Intents and […]

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Hello and Welcome Two weeks ago, at the JavaOne 2010 Conference in San Francisco, there was an announcement that Oracle will no longer supporting JavaFX Script as a language. In fact, Sun.Oracle will refactor the current implementation into a Java API and framework in the 2.0. As many have reported (and obviously mis-reported) Oracle made […]