Programming Languages

Functional Programming (FP) was one of the issues we went over during the Scala demo I gave last Tuesday.

The resolution of that discussion was't to my satisfaction, not to mention following community entries that may picture FP as a concept that is open for personal interpretations. So, following are some clarifications about FP and its place in Scala.

Functional Programming:

By: adi 17/12/2009 - 14:36

Haskell, Programming Languages, Scala

Repeatable Deployments and Installations from PyWeb-IL 10th meeting

I have had the plesure of attending the PyWeb-IL 10th meeting.

Embeded is one of the presentations wich was presented by Idan Gazit - what I most enjoyed was the abuility to automate the development & deployment of Python projects.

By: hagzag 05/12/2009 - 12:42

Programming Languages, Python

node.js - creating event based servers based on V8 Javascript

Node.js is a framework for creating servers based on V8 javascript VM. It is interesting to see how a language like Javascript can be used for creating performant servers given the right VM.

Here is a review of it: http://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/23/node/

Homepage: http://nodejs.org/

By: ittayd 24/11/2009 - 14:56

javascript server, Programming Languages

E-Commerce in Java. Pluses and minuses. Your opinion matters!!!!!!!

Hi,

I invite you to disscuss that topic , please provide you input and comments.

My questions:

Why java is relatively outsider in matters of small-businesses and e-commerce?

Except historical reasons, what reasons would you list?

What conditions should we have(endorse) to bring java more closely to e-commerce?

I mean both: technological and business ideas and conditions.

Where are the STRONG sides of java in e-commerce in comparison to PHP, .Net, etc?

What good java e-commerce applications, solutions would you recommend?

What bad examples of java and e-commerce, that you experienced? Please, elaborate.

6. Say whatever you think matters.

Thanks a lot!!!

By: peterk 24/09/2009 - 14:32

Application Frameworks, Business Intelligence, java e-commerce small business, Java Libraries, Programming Languages, Web Application Engines, Web Frameworks, Java

An idiot rules for the programmer specialized in java/ee

Hello,

I would like to share my bad and good experience in application's design and planning.

Remember, if you work with WEB/EJB container's objects, never make assumptions.

This stuff always tends to behave against your common sense.

As example:

By: peterk 10/09/2009 - 16:25

Application Frameworks, Concurrency, Databases, Java, java application design, Programming Languages, Servers, Tikal Community

Dream it! Reaction on the latest JBug.

The java threading is obviously the best of the threading paradigms we have!

(Now I squeeze my ears to avoid the loud and uncontrollable, sometimes even hateful reaction)

They just bark : “Scala is the right threading, you will do better with Scala”.

Ok..Ok..Relax...

You can call that wrapper a language and fully enjoy it .

But somebody, even more skeptic than me has said: “Java is a C and an Assembly wrapper, so why it is a language and scala is not?”

I appreciate all those comments and have a right to completely ignore them.
Yes.

By: peterk 09/06/2009 - 10:34

Concurrency, java scala language concurrency, Programming Languages

Erlang workshop summary

The IGT 2009 conference on Cloud Computing had a workshop on the Erlang programming language. Erlang is widely considered the language of choice for highly concurrent, reliable & scalable applications, e.g., 99.999% up-time middleware servers. It has some amazing features for concurrency, hot-code upgrades, distributed programming &c. BTW, Scala has "borrowed" a lot of features from Erlang.

The workshop was given by Ulf Wigger, the developer of the 1st large commercial product developed in Erlang.

I'm attaching 2 mindmap summaries with notes I took during the workshop.

More info can be found in the Erlang community site:

http://trapexit.org

By: udib 06/12/2009 - 12:22

erlang, Programming Languages, summary, workshop, Private Discussions

Java SONG , a bit outdated , but still VERY NICE!

the file to listen:

http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=brijwhiz.wordpress.com&url=ht...

the text to read:

http://brijwhiz.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/fantastic-java-song/

By: peterk 02/12/2009 - 22:50