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I took a look at Scala Streams tonight (or was that last night? When am I posting this?) and thought I’d share what I learned from Literate Programs and the Scala source code. Streams For the uninitiated, a Stream in Scala helps realize one of the fundamental concepts of Functional...
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Note: This is C++0x stuff and it’s really just an investigation into some of the more obvious parts of it, including the auto keyword and lambda functions as well as working with higher kinded types (signified in C++ as template-template parameters). I’ve been doing a lot of Scala...
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I’ve put my Vim configuration on GitHub now. Have a gander at http://github.com/derekwyatt/vim-config

The Vim ‘indent’ script for Scala that I’ve been working on is now starting to take some decent shape. If you’re a Scala coder and are working in Vim, I can now actually recommend this script :). It’s actually the least complicated one I’ve written that achieves...
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I found some time to update the indent file for Scala recently. It’s getting better and more complicated, unfortunately. Please feel free to fork it and make changes/fixes… I hate writing this thing :) Grab it from my vim-scala repository on github. Posted with WordPress for...
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So, a little over a month ago, I changed departments where I work – I used to work in the Enterprise Software group and have moved to the System Architecture / Research group. There are some great things that go with this: I get to work with Vim more than I used to because I now code a lot...
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Well, I got another patch from someone for protodef. It was just getting silly that I didn’t have anywhere to actually put this stuff and I was getting tired of people sending patches :). Now y’all can just fix stuff for me directly… go to it. Head here for protodef. Head...
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I’ve finally updated FSwitch and ProtoDef after a long time waiting. Three guys gave me patches over many months and I’ve finally put them together into an actual couple of releases. Thanks to Matt Spear, Timon Kelter and Dmitry Bashkatov. Sorry about the wait fellas.

So there’s been some scuttlebutt on the Twitters recently regarding this “Pathogen” script for Vim and I decided to have a look. In a word? “Sweet”. In a few words? Tim Pope is the absolute man. This is an extremely simple and elegant script. All it does is...
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Rick over at Lococast.Net has some great screencasts up for Vim. I’ve watched a couple of them now, and I’m a happy dood… nice stuff! Go check ‘em out. Go… go now… stop… no, don’t do that, you know what I mean… that thing you were going to...
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