Author Archives: Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

TDC 2012 and Scala

Posted on 30 May 2012 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

From 4th to 8th July this year we will have the TDC conference in São Paulo. Although we are already very close to the event date, the call for papers is still open, so please submit something. Of special interested … Continue reading →

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a small store application in scala, with play and akka

Posted on 23 May 2012 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

I’ve been promising some people that I would put a personal project I’m working on available on github. I wanted to have it done and usable before doing that, but since I always get delayed by something, I decided to … Continue reading →

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Slides from my Akka presentation at Just Java 2012

Posted on 19 May 2012 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

I just uploaded the slides from the Akka presentation I did at Just Java 2012. You can find them here. The slides are in portuguese because the audience were brazilians, of course 😉 By the way, the conference was really … Continue reading →

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Akka at Just Java 2012 in São Paulo

Posted on 16 May 2012 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This weekend, 18th and 19th of May, will hold the Just Java 2012 conference down here in São Paulo, Brazil. If you are in the area, please drop by. This year, I’ll give a presentation about Akka 2.0 – mainly … Continue reading →

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Scala 99 Problems on github

Posted on 16 Mar 2012 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A long time ago I started playing with the scala 99 problems. The project is going very slow, but it is moving. So I decided to share the code in a more open and easier way: github. I have solutions … Continue reading →

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Why dynamic languages are not cool

Posted on 14 Feb 2012 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Some people love dynamic languages. I don’t. This last week, I found one more reason for it. I might be a bit biased because I love Scala, but lets go for it. A project I started maintaining a few weeks … Continue reading →

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Matching a combination of class and trait in Scala

Posted on 19 Dec 2011 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

While doing some development with Scala I discovered that it is possible to match combinations of a class and traits. It might seem obvious if you already know it, but I didn’t. What happened is that I needed something like … Continue reading →

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scaladores first meeting

Posted on 8 Nov 2011 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Right to the point: we are starting a Scala user group down  here in São Paulo, called Scaladores. The idea is to for people interested in the Scala language to meet in person and talk about it. If you are … Continue reading →

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Acidental scala upgrade with sbaz

Posted on 19 Sep 2011 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

And then I was playing around with the scala tools that come in the installation’s bin folder. There is something there called sbaz, and this name sounds so different that I just HAD to play with it to find out … Continue reading →

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Scala’s Parallel Collections are useful even in the most simple cases

Posted on 26 Aug 2011 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

One of the main features that Scala version 2.9.x brought was Parallel Collections. If you think about it quickly, you might consider using such a feature only in complex, process intensive scenarios. Although those are certainly the main places where … Continue reading →

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