I really want to be liking Ubuntu, but the 8.10 release is once again a disaster. There's a nasty freeze bug on my ThinkPads (T61p and X300) when I use WiFi. The machines just randomly lock up. It took about 3 months before 8.04 was stable. I figured it was because the Ubuntu folks pushed a lot of stuff into the Long Term Support release. In terms of the crap that is 8.10, there's just ...

Wow! It's been two years that I've been doing Scala development and I'm still totally grooving on the power of the language and the awesomeness of the Scala community. In 2006, I had become disenchanted with Ruby and Rails. Language stability and performance was lacking. Community interest in enhancing Ruby/Rails to meet the needs of teams of more than 4 people was non-existent. I went looking for something else. I found Scala. It's a JVM ...

It's starting to happen... the FUD around Scala. The dangers of Scala. The "operational risks" of using Scala. It started back in November when I started doing lift and Scala projects for hire. The questions were reasonable and rational: If you build this project in Scala and lift, who else can maintain it? A: the lift community has 500+ (300+ back in November) in it and at least 3 (now 10) of the people on ...