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Last week I read a blog post about an interview for Google and I thought: "Oh my god, I don't know how to do that, I'm lost, I ...

Quick quizz: 1 + 2 =? and 1 + 2 + 3 =? and 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 =? In other words, what is the result of the sumN function, which sums all integers...

Now, I don't know how I managed to do without it. Now, I wonder how everyone can do without it. Now, I think that nothing big can be don...

Writing unit tests can seem tedious sometimes. Some people tell you: "Hey, don't write unit tests only! Do Test-Driven Development...

I apologize to Scala-interested readers, you'll have to scroll down to find something vaguely related to Scala! The first part is a pseu...

There's something I love at least as much as software development: my wife (Hey!! Give me back that keyboard, will ya?. I love you *mor...

This objective of this post is to contrast some java and scala code aimed at accomplishing the same scripting task: cleaning-up my garbage ...

Now let's start with our first step with Scala. In the next posts, I'll be certainly assuming that you come to Scala from Java, howe...

Selecting one " Programming language of the year ", yes but which one? The contenders I pre-selected several contenders: 1. An ML ...

Selecting one " Programming language of the year ", yes but which one? At school First, let's have a look at my abysmal lack o...

Dear Joel,... Here's a letter I just received from Joel Spolsky's company, FogCreek Software . One year and a half later, they'v...

Reading tons and tons of internet stuff, I often find some posts or some documents I find interesting or funny: some net pearls. As usual I ...

How do you know you got it all in your toolbox? Short answer: you never have it all. Long answer: you may add more, a lot more,... I was rea...