Scala Exchange 2013

Deutsch I have visited the conference ScalaX 2013 in London on the beginning of December. It was really fun. The talks were quite challenging, maybe even a little bit more than on other conferences I have visited, but that was really fun to listen to. About 400 participants were there and three tracks were available. …

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Elixir Programming Language

Deutsch When there is need for high performance, scalability and availability of applications by using the parallelism that current hardware can offer, Erlang is on the table. It uses its own virtual machine, called BEAM. So in this aspect it is quite similar to Java and to most modern interpreted languages. They all use their …

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Five Programming Languages you should learn

Larry Wall talking about his suggestion for five programming languages one should know: youtube

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Rails 4.0 Beta

Rails 4.0 Beta. 😉

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Development of Hardware: Parallelism

Deutsch Until recently we could just rely on the fact that the CPU frequencies doubled at least every year, which has stopped a couple of years ago. So we can no longer compensate the inefficiencies of our software by just waiting for the next hardware release, which was no big deal, because software was often …

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Apps or HTML5

Deutsch The idea of having apps for cell phones is not so new. Quite simple phones offered this and the apps were often developed using Java ME, a „reduced“ Java. This may not have been the best possible solution, but at least development could be made for a variety of cell phones with the same …

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Ruby 2.0 coming soon

This is a translation of Ruby 2.0 in Sicht According to blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp Ruby 2.0 is almost finished. The new features are already known and a release 2.0.0-p0 is planned for Q1 2013.

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Overflow of Integer Types

Deutsch Handling of integral numbers has always been one of the basic capabilities of our computing devices. Any common programming language since the fifties provides this in some way. There are some significant differences between the ways integral numbers are handled in different programming languages. Dealing with the overflow There are several approaches: Integral numbers …

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