http://www.familie-kneissl.org Aktuelle Gedanken und Eindrücke. Thoughts and Impressions. daily 1 2007-07-30T11:39:38Z http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/updating-functions In computer science often updates to bindings / environments are described by updating substitution functions at specific points. This blog post shows a way to express such updates in Scala. No publisher martin programming 2010-04-03T14:56:54Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/why-google-wave-might-wash-away-privacy Google Wave might become another major threat to your privacy due to its design. Make an informed and conscious decision on how you want to use it. No publisher martin privacy, 2009-08-10T13:31:29Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/interview-cold-calls Die Regionalnachrichten "17:30" von SAT.1 NRW haben mich heute zu unerwünschter Telefonwerbung interviewt, erfragt, was man tun kann, und ob ich glaube, dass die aktuelle Gesetzesänderung wirken wird. No publisher martin anti-spam Fernsehen 2009-08-05T08:53:11Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/fast-forward-to-scala A quick introduction to Scala for Java programmers I have presented recently. No publisher martin 2009-06-30T15:26:23Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/a-scala-wrapper-for-apache-velocity Groovy has string interpolation in two forms: GStrings and Groovy Templates. Scala has -- nothing in that area, unless you count String concatenation or printf-like format strings. But the Java world has template engines, here is how to use one with additional comfort. No publisher martin 2009-03-12T12:51:12Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/qcon-london-2 More from QCon 2009: Tony Hoare on science and engineering. Architecting for scalability. Microsoft surface. Scala introduction. Reconciliation. Michael Feathers. The Obama campaign. No publisher martin 2009-03-12T10:34:22Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/qcon-london-1 Reflections on the tutorial day of the QCon conference in London. No publisher martin 2009-03-11T08:39:44Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/scala-changes-the-java-world Javamagazin, the major German developer magazine for the Java platform, titles "Lift the curtain: Scala changes the Java world". No publisher martin 2009-03-05T12:13:32Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/reflection-from-scala-heaven-and-hell Bringing some dynamic pieces to the statically typed language. Watch your steps... No publisher martin 2009-01-28T23:41:52Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/family-polymorphism-in-scala How to keep types together for a set of associated types. No publisher martin 2009-01-20T21:03:37Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/no-closures-in-java-7 Currently it seems that Java 7 will not get closures. Oh dear. No publisher martin 2008-12-15T21:50:25Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/iphone-bei-simyo Mein Lieblings-Mobilfunk-Reseller bietet jetzt das iPhone 3G an. Wenn es denn copy&paste hätte, 64GB Speicher und eine Java VM, dann könnte ich mich schwer zurückhalten. So ist es cool, schick, aber doch noch nicht vollständig. No publisher martin 2008-11-20T19:28:03Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/limited-visibility When driving my car I do not like foggy weather with limited visibility. In programming languages it is the other way round: Too much detail visibility will hinder evolution of software systems. Unfortunately Java is rather weak in controlling visibility. Scala improves the situation a little bit. No publisher martin programming 2008-11-17T22:09:05Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/to-type-or-not-to-type-functions-in-scala-and-groovy Does a static type system help even though the code becomes longer / more ugly? No publisher martin 2008-11-06T23:28:47Z Blog Entry http://www.familie-kneissl.org/Members/martin/blog/rational-numbers-in-scala I just finished another chapter in the Programming in Scala book: "Functional objects". C++ strikes back: The return of operator overloading... No publisher martin 2008-11-04T20:41:20Z Blog Entry