Recent Posts
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April 08, 2016
Signing Git commits
Last week GitHub released another new feature: GPG signature verification.While it may seem something new, Git already supports signing commits and tags with GPG . Still, GitHub turned easier to verify if the commit is signed by the author, introd...
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March 26, 2016
Saving JSON to Scala model - Part 2
Following up my previous post on mapping json objects to Scala models, it is time to present some more advanced use cases.In the past weeks I have found myself in cases where a little more ‘magic’ was needed: Read dates from the json (org.joda.Da...
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March 08, 2016
Git Status Notifier
Git has become one of the most essential tools for every developer. While most developers trust in GitHub to host their git repositories, Bitbucket, and more recently Gitlab, have become worthy alternatives.When users rely so much on those service...
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January 05, 2016
Saving JSON responses to your model in Scala
If you deal with external APIs (like Twitter, Facebook, Intercom, Github, and many others) on a regular basis there’s a big chance that you have already dealt with JSON answers before.JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interch...
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December 18, 2015
Open Source Development: a few guidelines
This post was originally published on Codacy blog by me:I believe the Open Source movement is the biggest breakthrough in software development. Open Source has allowed many projects to increase the number of contributors (and contributions) to unr...
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November 09, 2015
Play framework, Slick and MySQL Tutorial
Edit: You may want to have a look at the updated example using Play 2.7 instead of Play 2.4 at Play Framework and Slick example updatedTypical nowadays applications need to store some persistent data frequently. And when we talk about persistent...
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September 20, 2015
Playing with Instagram API
For those who don’t know, the Play Framework is the standard web framework for Scala (also available to Java), and it is similar to many other MVC frameworks, such as Spring MVC, Ruby on Rails, Django, and so on.And it has been a while since I’ve ...
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September 07, 2015
Mac and homebrew, the perfect marriage
Last week, on September 1st, I started a new adventure on Codacy.Codacy is an automated code review tool that allows developers to improve code quality and monitor technical debt. It aims to improve the code review process. To achieve such goal, n...