Scribe 2.0: Fastest JVM Logger in the World! — . 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…
Logging Performance — . 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…
Play Framework for Scala: An Evaluation — . 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…
Mobile Development Hell — . 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…
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…
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:…
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.…
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…
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...