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Play Framework for Scala: An Evaluation

Posted on June 3, 2016February 24, 2022 by mhicks

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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Mobile Development Hell

Posted on July 31, 2015February 24, 2022 by mhicks

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…

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Mocking should be Mocked

Posted on February 25, 2015August 27, 2022 by mhicks

I’ve worked with and for a lot of companies over the years and with the ones that actually care about unit testing Mocking (Mockito or some other variation) typically quickly enters the scene. My argument is that in proper coding you should be able to write proper unit tests without any mock objects. I’ll go…

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Why Templates Suck

Posted on September 26, 2013February 24, 2022 by mhicks

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…

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Hyperscala: Getting Started

Posted on January 15, 2013February 24, 2022 by mhicks

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…

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Why is Scala more difficult than Java?

Posted on December 8, 2010February 24, 2022 by mhicks

I was pretty exclusively a Java developer for twelve years before making the switch to Scala. Yes, it was difficult to learn some of the syntactical differences, but now that I have I don’t want to turn back. No, this is not a baited question to get a flame-war going, but an honest attempt to…

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