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Async now part of Scala

Something very much like my async-scala post has been included in Scala 2.10
http://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/pending/futures-promises.html

The 'await' has been replaced with on "onSuccess" method, which I'm not a fan of;
but making it work with for comprehensions is just awesom.

for all those programmer/theoretical physists

Some of my favorite hobby topics combined with perl programming:
"quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the very fabric of the space-time continuum"


http://yow.eventer.com/events/1004/talks/1028

I might have to try to implement some of these things in scala; might give the rods a miss though ;)

creativity

http://www.everythingisaremix.info/

scalafx

javafx and scala :
http://javafx.steveonjava.com/javafx-2-0-and-scala-like-milk-and-cookies/

cryptography enhances security

A great article on the limits of cryptography, as well as common misconceptions :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/09/27/keep-it-secret-keep-it-safe.aspx

code is the plural of code

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2773761/armchair-linguists-code-vs-codes-or-why-i-write-code-and-my-manager-asks