I often speak to clients and developers that are pushing the Play Framework as the ideal web framework when developing Scala web applications. I started considering why Play is the framework that people tend to settle on, especially large companies. I think there are a few reasons: It’s supported by Typesafe *cough*, I mean Lightbend….
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Why Templates Suck
The Problem I’ve been asked a lot recently about what template engine I prefer and most people seem shocked when I say that I do my best to avoid them and just generally don’t like the idea of templates. Let me first define what I mean by templates before I get into my explanation so…
Hyperscala: Web Site
I have been negligent giving proper support to Hyperscala’s public appearance and have spent the past several months working on the API itself. However, today I finally released a very basic web site at hyperscala.org: The site is incredibly basic right now and not all that pretty but it is written in 100% Hyperscala and…
Hyperscala: Why not Play?
This article is continuing in the series on exploring Hyperscala. If you have not already done so, I would highly recommend reading the following previous posts as many topics discussed here build on concepts previously discussed: Hyperscala: An Introduction Hyperscala: Getting Started Hyperscala: Chat Example The Play Framework is perhaps the most popular web framework…
Hyperscala: Chat Example
Up to this point we’ve talked about the high-level features of Hyperscala and have gone through a simple Hello World example, but today we’re going to write a real application to show a fairly simple real-world web application. The real-world application we’re going to write today is a chat example. This will utilize real-time messaging,…
Hyperscala: Getting Started
Last week I did an introduction to Hyperscala and briefly outlined some really cool things it can do. This week I want to slow down a bit and take you through the basics of getting your first application up and running with Hyperscala. Requirements: Since there is a broad number of IDEs / editors used…
Hyperscala: An Introduction
It has been well over a year since my last post. In 2011 I went to work for Overstock and moved to Utah. Life got busy and I worked during the day and when I had time I programmed on Sgine at night (http://www.sgine.org). In February of 2012 I left Overstock and moved back to…
Flex WebBrowser Component
I’ve been working on an acceptable solution to display web pages within my Flex applications and as any of you know that have done any research on it will find, it’s frustrating how lacking Flex is in support for this. The ideal solution would be for Flex to provide a fully functional component that renders…
Flex Native Drag-and-Drop: The Massive Hack
I had made the commitment a while back that I was going to add complete and perfect drag-and-drop support to jSeamless. The Flex Implementation proclaims support for DnD so I’ve just pushed off the investigation up until recently. However, now that I’ve come to implement this great functionality I realize that there is absolutely no…