Category Archives: Jan’s Blog

What can you expect at Cake Solutions

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jan Machacek

If you’re here, you know that we are looking for a new programmer to join our team. If you are considering joining us, I think it’s only fair that I explain what you can expect once you sign up. Joy … Continue reading →

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JDBC with iteratees

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Jan Machacek

Just a short post before bed-time. I’ve added support for iteratees and composition for the different operations you may want to support. It is actually very useful. Let me demonstrate on a short example: object Main { import scalaz.IterV._ import … Continue reading →

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Dependency injection vs. Cake pattern

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Jan Machacek

Typically, the argument comes down to is Spring Framework better than Play Framework?, is Lift better than Spring Framework?, is Grails better than everything else?. In this post, we will explore the world of contemporary JEE applications, paying extra attention … Continue reading →

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Pattern matching

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Jan Machacek

Following from the Type-safe DSL post from last week, I am now going to show you how to use pattern matching to simplify the queries we can now construct. Let’s review the motivation for the simplification: the DSL allows us … Continue reading →

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Type-safe DSL

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Jan Machacek

I very much like the new query DSL in Grails; in this post, I will show you how to construct a similar domain-specific language in Scala. We are going to implement a DSL to create queries. You are going read … Continue reading →

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Scala Kickstart at #Thoughtworks

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Jan Machacek

It was my pleasure to give a talk at the fancy Thoughtworks offices in Manchester. (The view from the 18th floor of Piccadilly Tower was really impressive!) I had a good crowd of people who were all interested to find … Continue reading →

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The future of work: bring your own to work

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Jan Machacek

Here at Cake we are passionate about software and application development, but not just from technology and innovation viewpoints. We are curious about the impact upon business, society and the individual, and within this, both work and personal perspectives, of … Continue reading →

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Agile and engineering

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jan Machacek

I shall be delivering a talk on Agile software projects on Thursday in London. As usual, I will present the common-sense rules of agile, starting with It is impossible to have specification that covers every detail of the application you … Continue reading →

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Movember Yoda notation!

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Jan Machacek

For more programming styles, take a look at Yoda Conditions, Pokemon Exception Handling and other programming classics

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We still like Spring!

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Jan Machacek

With all the recent Scala posts, you might think that we’ve abandoned our bread and butter, the Spring Framework. Absolutely not! Spring is still the most popular Java EE application framework; its dependency injection container allows us to combine the … Continue reading →

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