Berlin Brown and Software Development

A Light Eclipse Plugin for the Scala Programming Language http://code.google.com/p/lightscalaplugin/ This Eclipse plugin provides syntax highlighting for the Scala programming language. At present, the plugin only supports syntax-highlighting. The highlighting style is similar to the default Java style for Eclipse. Last Tested on WindowsXP, Java 1.5, Eclipse 3.4.2 (As of 4/24/2009) ----

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This is example source for a non-idiomatic example with JGap and Scala. The goal of this code is to give an input amount of change, say 30 cents and let the program calculate the least number of American coins. This is mostly a source example, there are some resources for learning Scala and JGap in the resources section at the bottom of this blog entry. [java] Running Make Change [java] Input amount of change => 30 [java] Total evolution time: 2661 ms [java] The best solution has a fitness value of 296.0 [java] It contained the following: [java] 1 quarters. [java] 0 dimes. [java] 1 nickels. [java] 0 pennies. [java] Done On Scala and JGap: "Scala goes further than all other well-known languages in fusing object- oriented and functional programming into a uniform language design. In addition to being a pure object-oriented language, Scala is also a full-blown functional language." -- Programming in Scala Book "JGap p...

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1. drools 2. genetic algorithms 3. jquery - for client side web development 4. ajax - for client side web development 5. gwt - for client side web development 6. better software engineering practices 7. better TDD 8. emacs-lisp - better emacs support 9. factor - amazing technology 10. gnu forth - great skill to learn 11. spring-framework - enterprise java development 12. scala - 13. haskell - great language to learn 14. mono - enterprise .net development on linux 15. cocoa - for mac gui development 16. statistics 17. boolean algebra

Date: Mon Apr 06 13:56:55 EDT 2009 The following entry describes a practical approach for using the Clojure programming language. Clojure is a new lisp dialect that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It has a lot of syntatic sugar of other Lisp languages but can also be used interoperate with existing Java libraries. This entry describes how to build a simple test helper GUI application that launches a script to compile your tests, run your tests and also runs Java's hprof and verbose garbage collection statistics. I have always had trouble compiling, launching and manipulating a collection of test scripts. By using clojure and this tool, I can quickly launch of series of tests without having to visit the command line. In reality, this test only LAUNCHES a script that then launches the actual test main application. So, the GUI application only acts as a facility for launching other processes. In our case, the processes are the Clojure test suites. The hprof and verbosegc com...