Scala: Types of a higher kind
One of the more powerful features Scala has is the ability to generically abstract across things that take type parameters....
Jed Wesley-Smith
Why write one test when you can write a hundred?
One of the greatest things about our software development process is our need and desire to test everything. Unfortunately, this...
Scala and Erasure
Mention generics to anyone who knows much about them and they’ll usually have an opinion on type reification and erasure....
Exceptions are Bad™
**Exceptions should be used for exceptional circumstances!** Exceptions are to be used when bad shit happens. Not because you got passed some bad data (as in not passing validation), but because someone pulled the...
Preventing Concurrent Operations
Some operations you don't want to run concurrently for various reasons. Here's a simple technique for preventing them.