Scala User Group to meet May 15 at 6 pm

I will be out of town, but Nathan Dotz of Detroit Labs has graciously offered to help manage the Ann Arbor Scala Enthusiasts Group. The

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New Adventures: Managing (my) career …

One of my favorite topics is career management. I like to remind those that I mentor that they need to be in charge of

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There and Back Again — Thoughts on SPAs

I’ve been doing this software thing for quite a while now. My first software job was in web development back in 1998. Since then, I’ve traveled through Simulation Systems, Embedded Systems, Tooling, Desktop Applications, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), some mobile and today I am back where I started, developing Web Applications. Productivity Highs with RIA [...]

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Humanitarian Toolbox: Day 2

Awesome. There’s no other word. This was positively awesome.

On the 10th, we built on the foundation we created on Tuesday. We spent the entire

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Humanitarian Toolbox Hack a thon, Day 1

I’m really happy with the response we got from the first night of the Humanitarian Toolbox hackathon at DevIntersections. We’re creating innovations that have a

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Write Some Code, Change the World

I’ve always found that developers are very interested in contributing their skills and their time to help others.

I’m excited to be part of a

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Ann Arbor Scala Enthusiasts March 20 — Scala 101: Come for the Collections, Stay for the Functions

Interested in learning more about Scala? Please join us on Wednesday night at 6 pm. We’ll have an introduction to Scala, demonstrate how sanity can

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Ann Arbor Scala Enthusiasts March 20 meeting

The Ann Arbor Scala Enthusiasts are on meetup and that allows me to post a poll regarding what folks would like for the March 20

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Async, Exceptions and Library Design

Hat tip to Stephen Toub for discussing this with me and helping to describe the solution.

At my CodeMash precompiler, I mentioned how the C#

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Annual trek to Java Posse Roundup

I’m here in Crested Butte, Colorado, for the annual Java Posse Roundup. Of course, the Java Posse delivers the podcast that keeps programmers on the

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