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There are also faker libraries for various languages, e.g. the famous https://github.com/stympy/faker , https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker and a little port in Scala (created by m…

You can also find the duodecimal system in languages like English and German: ten, eleven, twelve | thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen zehn, elf, zwölf | dreizehn, vierzehn, fünf…

Just wondering, is it better to use relative or absolute URLs ?

Shameless plug: I also created a similar library for Scala some time ago https://github.com/justwrote/scala-faker Need to update to 2.10 soon :)

So, twitter has a nice tutorial called Scala School ( http://twitter.github.com/scala_school ) and of course the official site ( http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/ ) has also so…

I was also shocked when I read this article. Didn't know those boxes don't exist in the US. They are quite convenient!

I see. Ebean looks interesting! I'm kinda stigmatized because of Hibernate and therefore avoid any persistence library that calls itself an ORM :)

Ah, I'm not the only one who thinks ORMs suck! That's why I love the latest development in the Scala community towards a non-ORM solution for persistence: Slick ( http://slick.type…

I'm living in Germany and to support this 'Energiewende', I'm only buying green electricity. It is more expensive but I'm happy to pay more if I can boost the industry around it an…

another nice example: http://beetle.com/

For me, the eclipse plugin is crashing (or the whole IDE is freezing for a few seconds) too often when I try to get code completion. On the other hand, in IntelliJ the Scala plugin…

Yes, it can! Scala: def Cook(i1: String, i2: String, f: String => Unit) { println("get the " + i1) f(i1) f(i2) } Cook("lobster", "water", x => println("pot " + x)) Cook("chicken", …

continues... Lift: * stateful * no code in the view * there is more than one way to use Lift Play!: * stateless * code in view: similar to erb files in rails pros and cons about co…

We actually have an idea in an area which is - if I read posts on HN - pretty well funded. VCs and Angles have a lot of interest. But in Germany, people don't see it - the ones wit…

I also love Scala, but how do you do your web frontend? Using Lift? Play Framework? I'm currently developing a side project with Lift and lets say I like the Scala-part of Lift....…

I think everyone would love to hire a good designer. But as already told: if you are a startup or doing some weekend project you cannot afford the money - this doesn't mean that yo…