I attended a Code Retreat yesterday in Hamburg. As usual we used Conway’s Game of Life to practice our coding skills. I planned to do at least one session using Scala, but my Scala IDE wasn’t working any more, probably due to an incompatible upgrade of some description.

Here is the end result of my implementation of the Bowling Game Kata in Scala. You can see all steps including the tests on CodersDojo.org.

[sourcecode language=”scala” wraplines=”false”]
class BowlingGame {

I think distributed CI is the logical next step in the evolution of Continuous Integration by getting rid of the manual step of running a private build on the developer machine before committing to the master repository. Here is how I imagine this might work.

Lean startup language design

At a recent hackathon, I was noodling around with Dart. I thought it was great that Google made it…

The residents of Java are waiting. Waiting for the day when another city will rise to supremacy in JVMland. These days they are looking north towards the functional territories and watch with interest as the new cities Kotlin…

After the recent divorce of Hudson and Jenkins following the tragical death of Hudson’s mother Sun and a long battle over trademark rights, Hudson seems to have come to senses and is planning to hand over the code to Eclipse.