Programming on the Edge
An intentionally provocative heading, but one I stand behind until someone can prove otherwise (and I welcome just that). Scribe 1.x was pretty fast (https://matthicks.com/2017/01/12/logging-performance/), but was not written with performance in mind. When I came back around and realized just how fast log4j2 is, I could see no reason why a Scala logging solution shouldn’t be…
I’ve never been a fan of the setup of logging frameworks as far back as when I was a Java developer. The hassle and complexity of configuring and managing the logging framework was always a big hassle and would often create serious problems in the application if not done right. Even today in Scala it…
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….
I’ve been writing a pretty large mobile application for a client recently and am finally getting close to releasing it, but thought it might be worthwhile to write a little bit about the experience I’ve had. The Frameworks I expected jumping into development for Android and iOS would be fairly straight-forward. Mobile development has been…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…