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Play2 Application on Wildfly: Why and How
JavaEE (v5 and v6) has a commanding presence in both marketshare and (developer) mindshare in the enterprise software world. The specifications are well thought-out, battle-tested and highly relied upon. I started using JavaEE (v5) way back in 2007 with JBoss 4.x. The latest release, JavaEE-7, which was released close …
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My Scala Application: Real-time Twitter Volume Grapher For Indian Elections 2014
The Indian general elections are around the corner. For software engineers, this time around, there is data to play with and try to predict the outcome. Among all, the data from the social media giants - Twitter and Facebook - is easily accessible for analysis. Though social media may not be the …
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Computing Laws, Theorems and Aphorisms
There are plenty of laws, theorems and aphorisms out there, apart from Moore's and Murphy's, that computer people could use. They sometimes come handy in meetings and emails! Just using them could, at times, mean standing on the shoulders of giants. I plan to keep this as an ongoing post …
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Streaming Twitter On Play + Spray Scala App
Working on Scalog I decided to write a quick program couple of days ago to see the super trending twitter hashtag - #ArnabVsRahul. I initially tried to follow the hashtag on TweetDeck but found that the arrival rate of new tweets simply did not allow me to read. Wanted a way …
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My Scala Projects In The Making
Over the last year I often heard my friends say the era of MOOC was truly upon us. It was only on taking up couple of Coursera courses did I realise it fully. They have been eye-opening many times over (and extremely rigorous). Would particularly recommend these two to anyone …