Confluence Alternatives

Is Confluence your documentation / knowledge-management system? Are you sick of its shortcomings? Poor and non-standard rendering. Lack of markdown support. Weird and inconsistent handling of unicode. …

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Anorm Primer

A primer on Anorm to use the interesting parts - core and combinator functions, as opposed to the mundane way of reading the column from Row. The post highlights situations when you don’t have a …

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scala-cli - A Breeze

New tool on the block is scala-cli (from virtuslab.org) - a clean simple approachable non-fluff command line first interface to the Scala language.

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My Everyday IntelliJ Plugins

If IntelliJ is the perfect main course, its plugins are the seasoning to spice it up. There are hundreds of popular plugins that rank in probably every post on IntelliJ plugins. However, the ones …

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Rebooting on Ghost Land

Many languages support union types, and it is high time Scala did. Union types are coming in upcoming version of Scala - Dotty. Union types (|) are already being compared with Either and Option …

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