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For some time I was eager to write some sample application that will be using Scala and the Akka actors framework. The main problem was to pick up an example, that would make sense to apply both technologies. The idea for the example came to me all of sudden, when I was sitting with my friends after a soccer game. Usually, when you play a game, you are talking about it right after it ends, but this time it was different. My colleagues were talking about poker ! read more »

Ostatnimi czasy, mam okazję tworzyć dość duże ilości testów jednostkowych. Zwykle tworze je do cudzego kodu, co pozwala mi w pewnym sensie ocenić jego jakość. Zapytacie może, jak proces pisania testów jednostkowych do istniejącego kodu pozwala ocenić jego jakość ?

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The inspiration for this post came to me mainly because of the discussion in comments which I had on Sebastian’s Malaca blog. We had a little debate there about the famous „getters and setters” duo. In my opinion, you can peacefully write software, completely avoiding them (with the obvious exception for DTO’s).

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From some time (2+ years) we can observe a huge explosion of different  Javascript frameworks. These frameworks divide mainly into two categories

1. UI widgets / DOM manipulation frameworks
2. class based type system frameworks

In this post I would like to focus on the latter. Every time is see a new framework of this type popping on the news I tend to ask myself the same question – why ? Why one does write all does frameworks, why people so much need classes in Javascript ?

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Dewelopment w Javie fundamentalnie różni się od flow do którego jesteśmy przyzwyczajeni w przypadku aplikacji Pehapowych. Wynika to przede wszystkim z samej „natury” obu platform – PHP jest językiem interpretowanym, natomiast Java kompilowanym. Wobec tego, tworzenie, czy zmiana kodu wygląda zupełnie inaczej.

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