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Mac Tips, Tricks and Utilities

I’m always looking for a way to get more out of my setup. In the past year, since moving from Windows to OSX, I’ve accumulated some knowledge and utilities I’d like to share…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs.

Parallelized Streams in Scala – Not What You Thought

I had a Stream of data coming in from an input source and had to do some heavily-CPU bound work. The code looked like this:… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress.

Unit Testing MySQL-Bound Code

I’m currently working on a product that is very tightly bound to MySQL. It’s so tightly coupled, in fact, that unit testing it while mocking the database access is meaningless. Unfortunately, accessing a MySQL database from the build server (or any machine) is not something that we can take for granted, not to mention concurrency (one person running the unit tests in parallel to another, messing each other’s sandbox) and the network I/O to an external server….