Category Archives: Development

Play OSX Package

October 25, 2009 – 12:26 pm

With work keeping me rather busy lately, I haven’t had the chance to write up a (readable) new post. But over the last little I’ve been looking for a lightweight web development framework for Java that breaks out of the Servlet mold when I discovered Play!. Play is lightweight, set up for rapid development, and [...]

By Scott | Also posted in Web | Comments (0)

How (not) To Attract The Best

September 13, 2009 – 2:44 pm

I read job boards. Like all the time. It’s a barometer for the tech industry. You can tell what’s hot, which way the technology is going, and where I might end up should I need a new gig.
Most job ads tend to take the same format, who they are, what they’re looking for, what you’ll [...]

By Scott | Also posted in Working | Comments (1)

I <3 Scala

September 6, 2009 – 9:56 am

I knew that people were starting to do wicked awesome things with Scala, but apparently David Pollak is actually making a living at it now. Color me jealous.
A few months ago I started looking around at the JVM alternative languages, Clojure, Groovy, the J’s (jython, jruby, ect.) and eventually Scala. I have somewhat of a [...]

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Know What’s Possible

September 5, 2009 – 2:22 pm

Picked up an article yesterday from Businessweek about companies that headhunters avoid when starting to look for new executive talent. You can read the whole article here, but what got my attention was the story at the beginning about former Coca-cola executive Jack Stahl.
Stahl left Coke in 2002 to become the president of cosmetics giant [...]

By Scott | Also posted in Learning | Comments (0)