I’ve been learning Scala for my current client project and I find writing to be a great tool to test my understanding of any given topic. This means there might be a few Scala posts coming up soon as I keep learning interesting things. Today I’ll be exploring a few different ways in which you can compose programs. I’ll be using Scalaz in this post. The examples that follow all deal with Vehicles - more specifically makes and parts:

I hinted at LambdaJam Australia back in my 2012 Highlights post and the dates are fast approaching so I thought appropriate to blog about it once more. YOW! LambdaJam is a conference targeted at intermediate and advanced functional programmers and is organised in talks, jams and workshops. Talks are the traditional format and are 30 minutes long; Workshops aim to introduce a specific subjects to attendees in great detail and are up to two hours long; Jams are hands-on sessions.

- Overall results First off, I'd like to thank everyone who voted on this poll. With a total of 236 votes, here is the summary of the first two questions: - Are you currently working with or researching about language alternatives for the JVM? - e.g. JRuby, Scala, Groovy {% img /assets/images/scala_improvements.png %} Tooling. The majority of comment urge for better tooling and IDE support. That simple. - Others