Frank Neff
In Java 8, the long awaited Lambda came to live, making it easy(-er) to do FP in Java. One problem I came across is, that most Java code throws checked exceptions which leads to IMHO ugly try/catch blocks in lambdas:
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Frank Neff
This is the first post of my series about functional programming in Java. There’s a lot of functional stuff one can do. Everyone knows the Java 8 Lambda expression, but with a little library support, there is way more… In this series, I’ll coder som libraries which provide functional paradigms and constructs for Java:
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Frank Neff
You may have noticed, that I had not much time to blog about something in the past months… One thing was, that we all need money, so I had to work very much. And as some of you know, I’m also studying in the evenings.
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Frank Neff
Working with the Play! Framework means working with Akka, intentionally or not. But working with Akka Actors can be
tricky, especially when it comes to dependency injection. Play! 2.4 uses Google’s
Guice for DI and of course it has the
ability to also bind Actors so an ActorRef can be injected anywhere.
Frank Neff
As my Scala projects go on, I want to share some compiler configuration and tricks with you, which I use on many projects. Some tiny configuration options can greatly improve your code and warn you about things, you would probably never discover.
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Frank Neff
I am interested in NLP and have already some experience with Apache Solr. It’s time to dig a little in-deep regarding stemmers. First of all, I was looking for a general definition of what a stemmer is, and I found this one, which IMHO is quite good:
Read Morestemmer — an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
Frank Neff
The word “pragmatism” or “pragmatic” is, in my personal opinion, the most overrated word in agile development. Many people use this as a buzzword without knowing what it means. I hear people saying “He solved that complex problem in half an hour, he’s so pragmatic!” and think for myself “Yeah, but that ‘solution’ probably causes other devs three times more effort than a sustainable solution would take.”
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