Re: Juglist Digest, Vol 56, Issue 8
Karen Collins <[email protected]> Thu, 13 May 2010 18:04:49 -0400
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I've done 2 small web apps with jruby and rails that my team uses internally as tools. My office mate is currently migrating a ruby on rails app that our external users work with to jruby and the latest stable gems. It tends to be so long between times when I work with jruby that I"m forever forgetting and relearning it. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Juglist mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Juglist digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, > Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? (Phillip Rhodes) > 2. Re: So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, > Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? (Michael Kimsal) > 3. Re: So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, > Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? (Chris Bredesen) > 4. Re: So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, > Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? (Robert Dale) > 5. Re: So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, > Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? (Phillip Rhodes) > 6. Re: Hack night? (Phillip Rhodes) > 7. Re: So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, > Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? (Phillip Rhodes) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:16:49 -0400 > From: Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]> > To: "Triangle Java User's Group" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Juglist] So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, > Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTilj0XWvf3OFp2tZZ98XwplnN8MaiSOpeJi5FNFs-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM languages?" > I'd especially be interested to know if there are any other clojure or > scala > fans here, as I'm planning to start putting some effort into both before > long. Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails at the moment, FWIW. > > > Phil > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://trijug.org/pipermail/juglist_trijug.org/attachments/20100513/5ac906e4/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:19:31 -0400 > From: Michael Kimsal <[email protected]> > To: Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]> > Cc: Triangle Java User's Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Juglist] So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, > Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikD4wVCE4HeFuq7XUBjlgia23LzcrOjqEgJVYLX-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I'm doing work with Grails. That's probably to be expected, but I wanted > to > throw that out anyway :) > > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Phillip Rhodes > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM > languages?" > > I'd especially be interested to know if there are any other clojure or > scala > > fans here, as I'm planning to start putting some effort into both before > > long. Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails at the moment, FWIW. > > > > > > Phil > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Juglist mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > > > > > > > -- > Michael Kimsal > http://jsmag.com - for javascript developers > http://groovymag.com - for groovy developers > 919.827.4724 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://trijug.org/pipermail/juglist_trijug.org/attachments/20100513/81077660/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:20:44 -0400 > From: Chris Bredesen <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Juglist] So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, > Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 05/13/2010 03:16 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > > Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM > > languages?" I'd especially be interested to know if there are any other > > clojure or scala fans here, as I'm planning to start putting some effort > > into both before long. Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails at the > > moment, FWIW. > > I've been looking for an excuse to write some Scala. Lisp doesn't float > my boat that much so I haven't had a real hankering to use Clojure much... > > If we could come up with a mini project in some social setting like a > hack night, I might be up for it. > > -CB > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:28:07 -0400 > From: Robert Dale <[email protected]> > To: Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]> > Cc: Triangle Java User's Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Juglist] So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, > Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinulbQ3u9ssAF6lN0Yw1DTBOBbR9j37xoUST91x-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I've written some scripts in scala, but it's been hard to convince > anyone to use it at work in some official capacity. > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Phillip Rhodes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM > languages?" > > I'd especially be interested to know if there are any other clojure or > scala > > fans here, as I'm planning to start putting some effort into both before > > long.? Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails at the moment, FWIW. > > > > > > Phil > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Juglist mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > > > > > > > > -- > Robert Dale > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:43:34 -0400 > From: Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]> > To: "Triangle Java User's Group" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Juglist] So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, > Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinJ8ZdCtuq3e56Ha3VY7AAkie9YOSBl7AecXni_-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > That would be cool. Do you have an itch to scratch, that might make a good > use for Scala? I mean, we could always do one of the "hello worlds" of > projects (eg, a web 2.0 to-do list or a twitter clone) but it might be > cooler to do something that somebody actually wants to work on. Most of > the > stuff I think I *might* have a use for Scala for - in the near future - > would be back-end services like graph processing, etc. Not sure if anybody > else would find that kind of thing interesting... > > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 05/13/2010 03:16 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > > > >> Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM > >> languages?" I'd especially be interested to know if there are any other > >> clojure or scala fans here, as I'm planning to start putting some effort > >> into both before long. Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails at the > >> moment, FWIW. > >> > > > > I've been looking for an excuse to write some Scala. Lisp doesn't float > my > > boat that much so I haven't had a real hankering to use Clojure much... > > > > If we could come up with a mini project in some social setting like a > hack > > night, I might be up for it. > > > > -CB > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Juglist mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://trijug.org/pipermail/juglist_trijug.org/attachments/20100513/b4f5f43a/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:44:30 -0400 > From: Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]> > To: "Triangle Java User's Group" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Juglist] Hack night? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinjuDdH_2AInLvxNU45dFYzZ8vlRkVxWuZUs65f-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dagnabit, where the Scala people, the Clojure people, the Groovy folks, the > Beanshell hackers, the Jython and JRuby punks, the Rhino crowd.... > > > Phil > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Fred Medlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nah. Me and Kimsal were pretty much the only Java people coming out on a > > regular basis, so we bailed. The meetup is available if you want to start > it > > up, Mr. Semantic Web nominee. :) > > > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Phillip Rhodes < > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > >> Anybody still doing the JVM Hack Night thing? If so, what's the > schedule > >> these days? Location? > >> > >> If not, anybody want to restart the idea? > >> > >> > >> Phil > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Juglist mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > >> > >> > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://trijug.org/pipermail/juglist_trijug.org/attachments/20100513/f377c23d/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:06 -0400 > From: Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]> > To: Chris Bredesen <[email protected]>, "Triangle Java User's > Group" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Juglist] So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, > Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTilkM36TIdOMtmhJ_6ycV_Jc47kEo0hEqLEHkIjp-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Well... doing a webapp and pulling in something like Lift would probably be > OK. Yeah, it means learning a framework as well, but I think having a nice > well-known problem / domain would make things more interesting. The one > Grails book "Grails In Action" uses a Twitter-like app as it's tutorial > app... we could do something similar to that, just in Scala. > > Anybody up for doing something like this, and learn some Scala? > > > Phil > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > I can see two pitfalls to doing such a hack night with no prior "state": > > > > 1. We get wrapped up in learning a framework instead of the language. > > 2. We get wrapped up in defining the problem instead of implementation. > > > > So I guess we mitigate #1 by sticking to something that is more > algorithmic > > and not like a full-on web application. We could mitigate #2 by > reinventing > > a blog, Twitter, chat or something ultra-well-known. No bickering about > > requirements or functionality :) > > > > What say you? > > > > > > On 05/13/2010 04:42 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > > > >> That would be cool. Do you have an itch to scratch, that might make a > >> good use for Scala? I mean, we could always do one of the "hello > >> worlds" of projects (eg, a web 2.0 to-do list or a twitter clone) but it > >> might be cooler to do something that somebody actually wants to work > >> on. Most of the stuff I think I *might* have a use for Scala for - in > >> the near future - would be back-end services like graph processing, > >> etc. Not sure if anybody else would find that kind of thing > >> interesting... > >> > >> > >> Phil > >> > >> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> On 05/13/2010 03:16 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > >> > >> Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM > >> languages?" I'd especially be interested to know if there are > >> any other > >> clojure or scala fans here, as I'm planning to start putting > >> some effort > >> into both before long. Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails > >> at the > >> moment, FWIW. > >> > >> > >> I've been looking for an excuse to write some Scala. Lisp doesn't > >> float my boat that much so I haven't had a real hankering to use > >> Clojure much... > >> > >> If we could come up with a mini project in some social setting like > >> a hack night, I might be up for it. > >> > >> -CB > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Juglist mailing list > >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> > >> http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > >> > >> > >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://trijug.org/pipermail/juglist_trijug.org/attachments/20100513/0c92fad5/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Juglist mailing list > [email protected] > http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > > > End of Juglist Digest, Vol 56, Issue 8 > ************************************** > _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [email protected] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org