Lift rocks!
I've been spending the past few months working on various projects (personal and work-related) based on the liftweb framework. It's been a heck of a learning process tackling Scala and a new web...
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This has been discussed a little on the lift mailing list so I thought I'd write something up. Lift has a nice, built-in mapper framework for doing database-object mapping, but it's geared mainly...
View ArticleEvolution of JPA from Lift
Edit: Forgot that I could use RequestVar. Also, Look at my next post for a further evolution of the Model objectWell, with some suggestions and info from David and Viktor I've started overhauling my...
View ArticleMore progress on JPA
I've refactored my code now that I have a request-per-session. So far, this is what the Model object looks like:object Model extends Logger { def logname = "Model" lazy val factory =...
View ArticleGRUB and arrow keys
OK, not really related to coding but I thought it would be useful to put this out there in case anyone runs into the same issue. I'm trying to use a remote VMWare console for a linux VM I'm running at...
View ArticleScalaJPA hits 1.0
I've been working on packaging up some of the Scala JPA boilerplate in use for the Lift JPA Demo into a small project called ScalaJPA. After some work on documentation and bringing it up to Lift 1.0...
View ArticleAmateur tools for professional works
Tyler (one of my co-authors on DGL) sent this link to me this week and it made me realize that I had some things to say as well.First off, I agree 100% with Peter's assessment of the Royalty Statement....
View ArticleThe pain of dependency management (that's you, vscaladoc-1.1-md-3)...
Well, it's certainly been a while since I've posted anything here, but I figured this is as good a place as any for this tidbit. While working on a project at work I ran "sbt clean-cache" accidentally,...
View ArticleIt's Not the Size, It's How You Use It
Yesterday I saw a flurry of discussion surrounding a post deriding not just message queueing systems but people who choose to use them. Normally, considering the tone of the post, I would just ignore...
View ArticleBeyond Chat : Lift, Comet and Akka
Earlier this week Diego Medina put together a really nice blog post about Comet in Lift, and that reminded me that I've been meaning to write this one.A few weeks ago, as part of the Learn Scala in 2...
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