Rob Young

Having not really explored functional programming before, I found the following presentation by Jim Duey to be a great introduction.

Through examples in Java, he presents a rundown of the basic functional programming concepts (Higher Order Functions, Laziness, Composition).

It was great for establishing a sense of how programming in a functional language can:

• improve code design, and therefore testability
• afford reuse and parallelism
• encourage thinking at a higher conceptual level
• fit naturally into an agile context

I hope that others may enjoy it too!

I came across an annoying bug today where I was able to deploy a webapp to Tomcat once, but subsequent redeployments resulted in an exception when attempting to write to the server.
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