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The Scala Programming Language

The Scala Programming Language
We are very pleased to announce Scala 2.11.0-RC4, the next release candidate of Scala 2.11.0! Download it now from scala-lang.org or via Maven Central. Since RC3, we’ve fixed two blocker bugs, and admitted some final polish for macros and quasiquotes. Here’s the difference between RC4 and RC3. Please do try out this release candidate to help us find any serious regressions before the final release. The next release candidate (or the final) will be cut on Friday April 11, if there are no unresolved blocker bugs.

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Stack: Overview Get Started Now With Typesafe Activator What is a Reactive application? Reactive applications are a new class of applications that are becoming more and more prevalent in both Consumer and Enterprise-facing environments. Reactive applications are fundamentally different to the traditional web-based or mobile applications seen today and are distinguished by having one or more of the following defining traits: In-depth introduction to machine learning in 15 hours of expert videos In January 2014, Stanford University professors Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani (authors of the legendary Elements of Statistical Learning textbook) taught an online course based on their newest textbook, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R (ISLR). I found it to be an excellent course in statistical learning (also known as “machine learning”), largely due to the high quality of both the textbook and the video lectures. And as an R user, it was extremely helpful that they included R code to demonstrate most of the techniques described in the book. If you are new to machine learning (and even if you are not an R user), I highly recommend reading ISLR from cover-to-cover to gain both a theoretical and practical understanding of many important methods for regression and classification. It is available as a free PDF download from the authors’ website.

specs2 @ GitHub Specify your software using both text and Scala code class HelloWorldSpec extends Specification { def is = s2""" This is a specification for the 'Hello world' string The 'Hello world' string should contain 11 characters $e1 start with 'Hello' $e2 end with 'world' $e3 """ def e1 = "Hello world" must haveSize(11) def e2 = "Hello world" must startWith("Hello") def e3 = "Hello world" must endWith("world") } Use different styles of specifications /** This is the "Unit" style for specifications */class HelloWorldSpec extends Specification { "This is a specification for the 'Hello world' string".txt "The 'Hello world' string should" >> { "contain 11 characters" >> { "Hello world" must haveSize(11) } "start with 'Hello'" >> { "Hello world" must startWith("Hello") } "end with 'world'" >> { "Hello world" must endWith("world") } }}

Spark, an alternative for fast data analytics Spark is an open source cluster computing environment similar to Hadoop, but it has some useful differences that make it superior in certain workloads—namely, Spark enables in-memory distributed datasets that optimize iterative workloads in addition to interactive queries. Spark is implemented in the Scala language and uses Scala as its application framework. Unlike Hadoop, Spark and Scala create a tight integration, where Scala can easily manipulate distributed datasets as locally collective objects. Although Spark was created to support iterative jobs on distributed datasets, it's actually complementary to Hadoop and can run side by side over the Hadoop file system. This behavior is supported through a third-party clustering framework called Mesos.

Whatever Happened to APL? Late, great Ken Iverson Whatever Happened to APL?by John C. Dvorak (originally appeared circa 1998) JavaScript JavaScript is classified as a prototype-based scripting language with dynamic typing and first-class functions. This mix of features makes it a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented,[6] imperative, and functional[1][7] programming styles. JavaScript has been standardized in the ECMAScript language specification.

18 Free Tutorials for Learning R Programming R is a powerful tool for data scientists and statisticians. The capabilities of R are being further developed daily by the proactive user base at the Comprehensive R Archive Network. The applications of R are becoming greater as the number of add-on packages increases. Learning the basics of R now will unlock the door to a very useful tool for presenting and analyzing data. JPA 2 Annotations - The Complete Reference (JavaDoc) Fast Object Database for Java - with JPA/JDO support ObjectDB ObjectDB Home » JPA » Annotations JPA Reference Which JPA is Faster? See a comparison of Hibernate, EclipseLink, OpenJPA, DataNucleus, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Derby, HSQLDB, DB4O by Versant, H2 Database, SQLite and ObjectDB

Scala or Java? Exploring myths and facts The popularization of the Scala programming language, noticeable by the abundance of opinions and criticism on blogs and social networks (like this one by Nikita Ivanov from GridGain and the popular Yammer case), greatly increased the amount of information about the language. However, the quality of such information often leaves much to be desired. Whether those opinions are favorable or contrary to the Scala, they often contain outdated, superficial or biased statements. The goal of this article is to help those learning or evaluating Scala to come into their own conclusions. It presents the most common questions about language and its environment and, for each one, added clarifications, examples and links, favoring the formation of a better opinion or a more accurate assessment.

Cascading Style Sheets CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.[1] This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. It can also be used to allow the web page to display differently depending on the screen size or device on which it is being viewed.

Best Programming / Developer Laptops List What is it? The CPU (Central Processing Unit), also called a processor, is the glorified calculator that is the very brains of your machine. It runs all calculations and is responsible for carrying out instructions and operations to and from the rest of the machine. How much do I need? Java Oracle Technology Network > Java Software Downloads View All Downloads HTML5 HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML 4 as of 1997)[2] and, as of December 2012[update], is a candidate recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[3] Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers, etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but also XHTML 1 and DOM Level 2 HTML.[2] History[edit] The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) began work on the new standard in 2004.

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