Akka HTTP: Getting Started
In this tutorial we’ll create a very simple web app using Akka HTTP.
Android density buckets, or how to work with your designers…
How does Android development compare with your plain old development? Well, in short words it’s very rewarding in a sense that you see results of your work right away. You can also deploy it right to your phone or a tablet and brag about it to your friends. However, there are pitfalls…
Northeast Scala Symposium 2015
The Northeast Scala Symposium just wrapped up in Boston. The Northeast Scala Symposium just wrapped up in Boston. I braved the snow, ice, and bitter cold with Don Coleman, Al Iacovella, Nicolas Kijak, and Ken Rimple and lived to tell about it. We’ve collected highlights from a few of our favorite sessions in this blog post.
FSM Actors in Akka
This post takes a look at the basic features of the FSM trait in Akka and implements a simple Tic Tac Toe game actor along with tests.
Exploring the Play Framework: Testing
This is the first in a series of posts in which we will explore building applications with the Play Framework. Today we will focus on creating a very simple barebones application and applying some tests to it. Starting A Skeleton Application Complete sample code for this article can be found at play-samples/minimal. The only prerequisite for following along with this article is to have a recent version of sbt installed. We’ll start by creating a project directory called play-minimal. Since…
Five Key Technologies for 2015
While we keep our eye on all kinds of emerging technologies, here are five in particular we’ll be paying attention to in 2015:
Technologies We're Watching for Early 2015
A group of Charioteers sat down last week to discuss some of the technologies and tools we have been and will be watching in 2015 – some beginning to establish themselves in the enterprise, and some still in early stages of adoption.
My $scope Is Not Your Dumping Ground
This little problem came up in my recent AngularJS/Ionic app. It all started with an innocent modal dialog. There are several, but for the sake of simplicity, let’s look at the login dialog: The generic dialog plumbing is a div with a surrounding overlay that dims out the rest of the screen. You can click the X in the top right to dismiss it. Or if you fill out the fields the Log In link becomes enabled. When you click…
Has Microsoft turned over a new leaf?
For the last twelve years, when someone asks what technologies we work with, the short answer has been “non-Microsoft.” But it seems the times, they are a’ changin.
AngularJS & Ionic: CSS Library Selection
Aaron Mulder reviews several mobile CSS frameworks – JQuery Mobile, TopCoat, Bootstrap and Ionic – for a side project. Check out his criteria and selection.