Category Archives: Scala

Learning a New Language

Generally, every program I write, regardless of what useful thing it actually does, and regardless of what programming language it is written in, has to do certain things, which usually includes Importing a library and calling functions contained within that … Continue reading

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Scala Quickstart for Oracle DBAs

For the benefit of my fellow DBAs, here is a quick guide to getting up and running with Scala, a language that is gaining a lot of interest recently. The aim of the exercise is to produce the simplest possible … Continue reading

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Jack of all trades → Master of Disaster.

When I got started in the industry†, like many people I was a generalist; designing and programming GUIs, network services, systems and database administration, even a bit of Photoshop, account management (the other sort of clients!) and end-user support. I … Continue reading

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