as a polyglot programmer, evry years I try to learn a new language . While the 2011 is ending i wonder which technology and language i will look out this year
crawl the file system
there is a lot of way to walk over a file system, but here is one in scala using implicit that i find specially elegant
Scalatra tutoriel : part 1
Scalatra is an implementation of ruby sinatra framework. Scalatra is small and simple . The big difference is that Scalatra is not MVC/session based but REST based. Let's what we can do with.
fun with some new technologies
for a long time I was a little depress watching the java world dying/splitting and all the bad news arround . but since a few i feel better, watching new techologie comming . Here is some stuff i want to dive in.
erlang fun
I just finished to play with erlang a functionnal programming base language. I love it, as much as scala.
This language (erlang) is specially designed for concurrency and parallal programming (scala stoll the idea of erlang actor). In my case i wrote a small programme to synchronize my disk folder to another computer.
Back to the classic
I m actually writing a small tool for synchronizing two directories, my app need to work on windows and ubuntu . i thought for a long time about which language i should use. I first thought using java or something like that but i thought i will have heavy performence issue and also even if java is the language I use in my professionnal life it's no suitable for system programming . So i decided to turn back to C++ a language i didn't used since 2000's .
I found myself very confortable with and had that strange feeling that everything is not so complexe but fast for the biggest part. I also found great improuvement on library like boost and stl
how to install sun jdk in ubuntu 10.04
A super ultra quick post
I notice that sun-jdk-package for ubuntu has disappeared (is it since Oracle...) and i look for the jdk quick install for a long time so, here is the process I followed to use Sun JDK in Ubuntu 10.04.
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk
Then you have to select it:
sudo update-alternatives --config java
enjoy
hummm...that fine but where is the processing
This is the story of an old school programmer who meet an new age web R&D team.
NoSQL : mongo and couchdb
or why i like NoSQL databases
Since spring 2009, NoSQL movement goes bigger and bigger. I began to use them (specially mongodb and CouchDB) in febuary for my personal project and i begin to like it. I found it's great but maybe not for the reasons you expect.
web design,screen pattern
This morning, I just found on my twitter a very good article from smashing mag. It's about typical screen design.
Pomodoro technique
As an agile fan, i sometimes need a lighter method than scrum. For exemple when i m working on a small one man project. I know there is Personal scrum, but i feel it brings too much constraint and i m looking for something with very short iteration. So, i googled for a while and found Promodoro Technique
Ooops !!
After a bad move, I deleted most of my website ... evrythings should be back soon ..
How to be agile when the management is not
As project manager and tech guy, i know the project i m working on these days wont be successful without an agile approch.
who s talking about xhtml anymore
Since a few, i found that many website talks about the new html 5 and css3 standart. Althrow specifications are still not finished it's already looks the previous xhtml disapeared.
Oracle/sun..no hopes
Since my days in computer school I was a great fan of sun's products. I Loved to work on solaris and at that time i was discovering java. Since Oracle/Sun merge, Solaris died, Mysql will and Glassfish...won't died but will disapear in a merge with Oracle own server.
As developper, I feel bad..
Fun with Processing
I actually having a lots of fun while playing with the Processing sketchbook, a great alternative to the ugly javafx stuff.
sbt
Since i start using scala, i looked for a good tool to build my project. I already known ant,maven and ivy which are great tools for java, but when I tried to use them XML configuration file became a hell to support scala .I didn't wanted to spend time on XML configuration file anymore so i used a simple batch file.
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