A fairly okay fellow.

June 6, 2011

Scala-Play! Framework: Arguing about Anorm

The great difficulty in arguing a point without making headway is the determination of correctness: am I wrong, or just misunderstood?

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May 20, 2011

"@finneycanhelp I really think that @playframework shows that most of the problems with Java are the frameworks, not the language"

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(via playframework)

Zen Buddhism has this concept, the Beginner’s Mind. A student of Zen is to keep a mind of eagerness and unknowing, untroubled by the bias of belief. In the context of Zen, the beginner’s mind is applied to an individual, but I believe it can just as relevantly be applied to groups; the Java community has come to live in a world where it cannot but expect cumbersome frameworks, dogmatic architecture rituals and elaborate technological stacks as a basic necessity.

Play does away with all of that and considers with an untroubled mind. I look forward to building a public-facing product in Play, especially once Akka actors get integrated into Play/Scala 1.0.