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I'm the author of the Play book. On the subject of that book... There are only two significant things that are out of date. A minor tweak in the JSON library and the new DI system.…

I'm the author of the Play book. On the subject of that book... There are only two significant things that are out of date. A minor tweak in the JSON library and the new DI system.…

No. I don't believe so. Think of Typelevel Scala as a tool to help people test out improvements to Scala as a whole, not as something that is going to deviate significantly from Li…

There are a handful of Javascript frameworks taking this approach. The community has adopted the term "isomorphic javascript" to collectively describe them (i.e. "same code on the …

I dug into the Haskell Art of Expression ( http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/SOE/ ) a little to produce Compose. Not knowing much Haskell (yet), the influence was superficial, but…

Thanks for the link---this is great!

I started composing music on Scream Tracker for MS-DOS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Tracker ). The layout there maintains a pretty good balance between being readable and …

Thanks for the comments -- agreed with everything you say. I'm also a musician and the intersection between music and code is really interesting to me. Compose is just a toy, but I…

Totally agreed with Heather. Martin's Coursera course is an excellent functional programming course. The fact that it's free is kind of crazy. Differentiating Coursera and Creative…

This is a follow-up to this previous submission on error handling in Scala: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9043721 The post generated some good discussion on HN and Reddit: h…

Sigh. Different font rendering engines. I made the font blacker too. I'll review it again next week. Thanks for the feedback, all.

I had a hand in the design of this site. The font looks ok to me on OS X but too light in IE8-10. I've upped the weight in IE. Hope that helps.