The end of programming as you know it. I have not seriously updated the old Apocalisp blog. Mostly this is due to the fact that I have been spending all of my creative time outside of work on writing a book. Stackless Scala with Free Monads.

The case for the digital Babel fish. Just like Arthur Dent, who after inserting a Babel fish in his ear could understand Vogon poetry, a computer program that uses Tika can understand Microsoft Word documents. 8221; This is how Tika in Action. Our book on Apache Tika. Download the freely available first chapter. To read the the full introduction. And I started writing the Tika in Actionbook for Manning.

On Scala, Functional Programming, Distributed Computing, architecture, DDD, DevOps and building resilient large scale distributed financial systems. Wednesday, 18 March 2015. A Brief History of SBT. Any developer that wrote more than a few lines of Scala has eventually heard of SBT. SBT is an efficient build tool with lofty functional principles. An uncommon structure, and a long history. The Simple Build Tool, as it used to be called, was originally released in 2008.